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  • Page 18 is an instance of that kind: I had been sent one day on an errand to a place in the neighborhood, called Clemen's Store, and was returning home along the Salem road, when I met a party of movers, with wagons, teams, slaves and household goods, on their way to another State.

    Reminiscences of Levi Coffin, the Reputed President of the Underground Railroad; Being a Brief History of the Labors of a Lifetime in Behalf of the Slave, with the Stories of Numerous Fugitives, Who Gained Their Freedom Through His Instrumentality, and Many Other Incidents 1880

  • Mr. Moya alternates chapters of Haydée's diary with the comic misadventures of her son Clemen and his cousin Jimmy, both on the run from the regime, as they attempt to escape the country, shifting disguises—housemaid, priest, sacristan, livestock traders—and getting lost in a labyrinthine mangrove swamp.

    Adios, Warlock Joshua Lustig 2011

  • They bicker constantly, Clemen's Falstaffian appetites and uncontrollable bodily urges clashing with the priggishness and military discipline of Jimmy, a former air-force officer, and their ill-tempered dialogues are often hilarious.

    Adios, Warlock Joshua Lustig 2011

  • If you would not have been expostulated with, I would have stood upon my defence: but for the world I would not have hurt a brother of Clemen-tina and Jeronymo, a son of the Marquis and Mar — chioness of Porretta, could I have avoided it.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Catholic rcligion: and Clemen-tina particularly pleased herself, that then her heretic tutor would take refuge in the bosom of his holy mother, the church: and she delighted to say things of this nature in the language I was teaching her, and which, by this time, she spoke very intelligibly.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Allow ine one observation only, my dear Clemen-tina.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Every woman (when withdrawn with her) Clemen-tina.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Clemen-tina composed, and then I shall know what can be done.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Clemen-tina could not but observe with what delight her complaisance to the count was received by ail her family It is possible, thought I, more than once, were I in the situation of tliis admirable lady, to avoid obliging such indulgent parents witii the grant of all their wishes, that depended on myself: having given up voluntarily the man I preferred to ail others

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • My pride made me want to find out pity for me in his looks and behaviour, on purpose to quarrel with him in my mind; for I could not get out of my head that degrading surmise, that he had permitted Dr. Bartlett to hasten to me the history of Clemen-tina, in order generously to check any hopes that I might entertain, before they had too strongly taken hold of my foolish heart.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

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