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Examples
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Kenge and Carboy will have something to say about it; Master
Bleak House 2007
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If your ladyship was to make any complaint to Kenge and Carboy or to Mr. Tulkinghorn of the present visit, I should be placed in a very disagreeable situation.
Bleak House 2007
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Carboy to Mr. Boythorn informing him that one of their clerks would wait upon him at noon.
Bleak House 2007
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The terms are easily concluded — for the Lord Chancellor cannot be hard on Mr. Guppy, associated as he is with Kenge and Carboy, Jarndyce and
Bleak House 2007
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His vacillations between law and medicine lasted so long that midsummer arrived before he finally separated from Mr. Badger and entered on an experimental course of Messrs. Kenge and Carboy.
Bleak House 2007
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When the detective arrived there he found Carboy sitting under a tree smoking a short clay pipe.
The Mansion of Mystery Being a Certain Case of Importance, Taken from the Note-book of Adam Adams, Investigator and Detective Chester K. Steele
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"She saw a Doctor Bird pass in his buggy and a farmer named Carboy go by on foot."
The Mansion of Mystery Being a Certain Case of Importance, Taken from the Note-book of Adam Adams, Investigator and Detective Chester K. Steele
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"You're the man I want to see, Carboy," and the detective took a seat on a log close by.
The Mansion of Mystery Being a Certain Case of Importance, Taken from the Note-book of Adam Adams, Investigator and Detective Chester K. Steele
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Carboy -- I didn't ask him which was his silly name -- dictated a letter and I wrote it in Spanish.
Captain Macklin Richard Harding Davis 1890
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"We will all be pious for a day or two, till Carboy closes his eyes," said Little.
Down the Rhine Young America in Germany Oliver Optic 1859
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