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Examples

  • We might have called Clewer in to look at you, "said Stalky.

    Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • β€œIt sounded almost like a firecracker,” Clewer told Australian radio Friday.

    Talk About Electric Personality | Impact Lab 2005

  • Clewer, who after leaving the building discovered he had scorched a piece of plastic on the floor of his car, returned to seek help from the firefighters.

    Talk About Electric Personality | Impact Lab 2005

  • The council also announced that R395973 would be used to upgrade electric workshops in KwaGuqa Township, as well as electrical equipment and substations in Clewer.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • Mpumalanga town of Clewer this week accused the Elandsfontein coal mine of trying to intimidate aggrieved residents.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

  • We used to wander for hours about Clewer, Frogmore, the Park at Windsor, the Terrace; and I was a delighted and willing listener to his marvellous stories of fairyland and apparitions and spirits and haunted ground; and his speculations were then (for his mind was far more developed than mine) of the world beyond the grave.

    Biographical Sketch 1901

  • They could hear Clewer howling as though his heart would break.

    Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • "Don't you think Clewer looks a little cleaner, Padre?"

    Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Clewer was throwing ink-balls in form this morning, instead of doing his work.

    Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • We're goin 'to be just as fair to you as you were to Clewer.

    Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling 1900

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