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  • And Toady asked Briefless and his wife to dinner the very next week.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • Briefless convoked his friends to oysters and beer in his chambers,

    The Virginians 2006

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Briefless is granddaughter of Sir John Redhand, who is so ill at Cheltenham that he can’t last six months.

    XV. In Which Rebecca’s Husband Appears for a Short Time 1917

  • Mrs. Briefless’s papa succeeds; so you see she will be a baronet’s daughter, ” And Toady asked Briefless and his wife to dinner the very next week.

    XV. In Which Rebecca’s Husband Appears for a Short Time 1917

  • 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 Rebecca’s Husband Appears for a Short Time 1917

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