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Examples
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Chaffery shut his penknife with a click and slipped it into his vest-pocket.
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Chaffery had induced Lagune when hypnotised to sign a blank cheque as an “autograph.”
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For a time the Crab engaged Chaffery, and the conversation languished.
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Chaffery turned to Ethel and looked at her curiously for a moment.
Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004
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Chaffery, tapping the bowl of his clay, and added: “In this country — cigars — sound cigars — and honesty rarely meet.”
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Chaffery having regarded them unfavourably through his glasses, took up the thread of his promised apologia.
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Ethel did not like talking of Chaffery and these other things.
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On the doorstep Chaffery regarded Lewisham with the same curious look, and seemed to weigh some remark.
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Chaffery always rose late, and would sometimes go away for days together.
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Lewisham lost something of what Chaffery was saying by reason of
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