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  • "It's not right to spread you sperm and leave women to deal with pregnancy," Coey said.

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  • Billye Coey, president of Adoption Assistance Agency, said the registry is important because it demands that men shoulder some of the burden of unwanted pregnancy.

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  • After a while, the others tried to bring her into the conversation by appeals to her opinion, but Coey was not to be so easily propitiated, and returned austere answers.

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  • Crickey, expecting him every minute to fall back, remained by Bluebell, so poor Coey trudged behind, and began to experience what jealousy was.

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  • Notwithstanding the reluctant admiration that the inspection resulted in, Coey (Bernard's affianced) heroically hoped, as she rose to take leave, that Miss Rolleston would spend the afternoon and stay to tea the following day.

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  • He, however, was thoroughly sulky at the way Gough had monopolized her the whole evening, and was quite as ready as Coey to pronounce her an arrant flirt; which so mollified the latter, that when,

    Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

  • But Coey came to her sister's assistance with a Biblical allusion to the mote and the beam, and

    Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston

  • Coey was already turned into a very belligerent little ring-dove, and Janet watched her askance, for she had never before known Alec so keen about partaking of tea at Palmer's Landing.

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  • Coey or Crickey would resignedly cook the family meals till an opportunity arrived to get another, and as, in addition to those occasional calls upon them, they were their own dressmakers, they had less time to get discontented with the monotony of the lake than might otherwise have been the case.

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  • Coey and Crickey; and exceedingly well they were getting on, she began to think, recovering rather rapidly when not the object of any particular attention.

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