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  • In fact, my parents tell me that all the kids now are real excited by somebody new they've just discovered called Duke.

    Old Pop Mannion completes another trip around the sun 2005

  • They knew well her secret, and always (for who can be long in England without becoming sentimental?) they cherished the hope of a romantic union between her and "a certain young gentleman," as they archly called the Duke.

    Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

  • They knew well her secret, and always (for who can be long in England without becoming sentimental?) they cherished the hope of a romantic union between her and "a certain young gentleman," as they archly called the Duke.

    Zuleika Dobson 1911

  • I had a dog which had been given me when he was quite young, soon after my arrival at the Hermitage, and which I had called Duke.

    The Confessions of J J Rousseau Rousseau, Jean Jacques 1896

  • On the morrow of their arrival he took them to a great lord in authority, who was called a Duke.

    Red Eve Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • I had a dog which had been given me when he was quite young, soon after my arrival at the Hermitage, and which I had called Duke.

    The Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1782

  • And I'm just proud to be on the program tonight with my colleague and friend, "Duke."

    CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2001 2001

  • a hand at lasquenet in a company which included a nobleman whom for obvious reasons I will only call the Duke.

    Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • I got the plug I was driving, for he did not recognize the "Duke."

    Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi George H. Devol

  • His companion was a young man of small build, but spirited, good-looking face -- De La Lande, schoolmaster of the village, a son of the farmer "Duke."

    The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair

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