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  • Above, Dinah Brome and that old woman who had a reputation in Dulditch for the laying-out of corpses, decked the poor cold body in such warmth of white flannelette, and such garniture of snipped-out frilling as, alive, Car'line Kittle could never have hoped to attain to.

    A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann

  • List of Illustrations, 327, Illustration caption - "Car'line" sometimes shown as "Caroline" in original

    Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 Carson Jay Lee

  • "He ha'n't so much as laid a finger on me since I was ill," Car'line said, making what defence for the absent man she could.

    A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann

  • Depper shed as many tears over his old woman as would have been expected from the best husband in the world; and Car'line let her dying gaze rest on him with as much affection, perhaps, as if he had indeed been that ideal person.

    A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann

  • Yo 'white face' minds me of my own Mandy Car'line just

    Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 Carson Jay Lee

  • "But I ha 'swallered worse things in my time than my own wards, I make no doubt; and you ha' come to a pass, Car'line Kittle, when you ha 'got to take what you can git and be thankful."

    A Sheaf of Corn Mary E. Mann

  • "Whatever comes, I ain't going to be smothered to death, Car'line Holland."

    Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920

  • Because I don't want Car'line or any one else peeking and harking to what I've got to say.

    Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920

  • No. Go and tell Car'line to give Christopher some of that grape jelly on his bread before he goes to bed.

    Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920

  • I ain't going to have any more spells, Car'line Anne.

    Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920

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