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And Toady asked Briefless and his wife to dinner the very next week.
Vanity Fair 2006
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Briefless convoked his friends to oysters and beer in his chambers,
The Virginians 2006
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What, I asked in my own mind, can cause this obsequiousness on the part of Miss Toady; has Briefless got a county court, or has his wife had a fortune left her?
Vanity Fair 2006
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Being called to the Bar in 1881, Mr. à Beckett was enabled to revive the humours of his father's "Mr. Briefless," by the filial creation of the happily-named "A. BRIEFLESS, Junior."
The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann
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His popular "Songs for the Seedy," a series of eight poems, were published in this year in _Punch_, as well as "Songs of the Flowers;" and soon his "Ballads of the Briefless" made a considerable stir in
The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann
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Briefless lawyers had, however, a wide field to cultivate outside this county, embracing at least all the counties of the
Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men Maurice [Unknown role] Joblin
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He joined the ranks of those 'Briefless Barristers' whose business it is to walk the hall of the Parliament House in search of clients.
Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Moyes Black
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Briefless is granddaughter of Sir John Redhand, who is so ill at Cheltenham that he cant last six months.
XV. In Which Rebeccas Husband Appears for a Short Time 1917
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Mrs. Brieflesss papa succeeds; so you see she will be a baronets daughter, And Toady asked Briefless and his wife to dinner the very next week.
XV. In Which Rebeccas Husband Appears for a Short Time 1917
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What, I asked in my own mind, can cause this obsequiousness on the part of Miss Toady; has Briefless got a county court, or his wife had a fortune left her?
XV. In Which Rebeccas Husband Appears for a Short Time 1917
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