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Cinthy has two admirers among them who call on her every night, and she generally makes her appearance to wait on the tea-table with her face whitened with flour - contributions being levied on our biscuit allowance
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Dick's voice trembled as he bade me good-by, Emily could not speak at all, and Cinthy cried as if her heart would break.
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Cinthy, exposed to such temptations, for they say it is disgraceful the way those Yankee soldiers carry on with the negro women.
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Cinthy, whom I was so troubled about, and her next sister,
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'I don't know whether he's worse off, or better off, Cinthy,' says I,
Cape Cod Folks Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895
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He was a good-natured critter, and allers had feelin's for lone women; and I s'pose he knew 'twas sort o 'desolate for Cinthy.
Oldtown Fireside Stories Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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Cinthy she sot by the fire in the front parlor with her goose and her press-board and her work: for there wa'n't no company callin ', and the snow was drifted four feet deep right across the front door; so there wa'n't much danger o' any body comin 'in.
Oldtown Fireside Stories Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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Cinthy it might 'a' ben a dream; so it might, but Cinthy she was sure it wa'n't a dream, 'cause she remembers plain hearin 'the old clock on the stairs strike four while she had her eyes open lookin' at the woman; and then she only shet 'em a minute, jest to say 'Now I lay me,' and opened
Oldtown Fireside Stories Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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She stood there lookin 'right at Cinthy; and Cinthy thinks that was what waked her up; 'cause, you know, ef anybody stands and looks steady at folks asleep it's apt to wake' em.
Oldtown Fireside Stories Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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Wal, ye see, Quassia she got Cinthy to come up and spend a week to the Cap'n Brown house, a doin 'tailorin' and a fixin 'over his close:
Oldtown Fireside Stories Harriet Beecher Stowe 1853
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