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  • Next month, she'll join Justices Ginsburg and Alito to hear an appeal on a blackmail conviction from Mrs. Cheveley, from Oscar Wilde's "An Ideal Husband."

    Supreme Night Court: Judges Relax By Trying the Fictitious and the Dead Jess Bravin 2011

  • While the play's stage directions call for Mrs Cheveley to curse "A curse breaks from her" as she tries to take the bracelet off, Crotty's Cheveley shouts out "Fuck!"

    Archive 2008-08-01 Miglior acque 2008

  • Rosina retaliated with her own novel, Cheveley, or the Man of Honour (1839), which documented Bulwer-Lyttons abuse and parsimony (her allowance was only 400 a year), and endless public and private letters, many delivered to her husbands club scrawled with obscenities.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • While the play's stage directions call for Mrs Cheveley to curse "A curse breaks from her" as she tries to take the bracelet off, Crotty's Cheveley shouts out "Fuck!"

    An Ideal No Man's Land Miglior acque 2008

  • Rosina retaliated with her own novel, Cheveley, or the Man of Honour (1839), which documented Bulwer-Lyttons abuse and parsimony (her allowance was only 400 a year), and endless public and private letters, many delivered to her husbands club scrawled with obscenities.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Rosina retaliated with her own novel, Cheveley, or the Man of Honour (1839), which documented Bulwer-Lyttons abuse and parsimony (her allowance was only 400 a year), and endless public and private letters, many delivered to her husbands club scrawled with obscenities.

    Bedlam Catharine Arnold 2008

  • Racing, though, even including the top two-year-old colts 'races, the Dewhurst and the Middle Park Stakes, and the fillies' championship, the Cheveley Park Stakes, was not near my highest priority.

    Second Wind Francis, Dick 1999

  • At Belvoir he was _l'ami de la famille_, and at Cheveley, another seat of the Duke of Rutland's, his rooms were as sacred as the Duke of

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various

  • Cheveley would have done, and I am happy to say that he wisely followed my advice, for I have since frequently heard from him.

    Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • Cheveley, Sandgate, England; and having no wax, I sealed it with a piece of pitch which I hooked out of a seam in the deck.

    Dick Cheveley His Adventures and Misadventures William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

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