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  • There was a school party, she noted, which meant that Florrie's niece would have to act as guide.

    Grasp A Nettle Neels, Betty 1977

  • She dismissed him from her thoughts the moment she was in the house, and indeed forgot about him entirely while she listened to Florrie's account of what had been happening during her absence -- nothing much, it seemed.

    Grasp A Nettle Neels, Betty 1977

  • Florrie's voice was still rambling on, a little doubtfully now because she was getting no reply, so Jenny explained and rang off, anxious to be gone.

    Grasp A Nettle Neels, Betty 1977

  • She left Aunt Bess in Florrie's capable hands and went away to unpack her things, have a bath and change her clothes.

    Grasp A Nettle Neels, Betty 1977

  • He was curled up on a window seat with Florrie's sat beside him, doing nothing, which for him was unusual, and Jenny said at once: "My, you're sitting there like a mouse-are you tired?"

    Grasp A Nettle Neels, Betty 1977

  • Chess, the hired man, who was Florrie's "steady," began to bring wood in by the armful, and fling it down by the airtight stove that had been set up only a few days before.

    The Heart of Rachael Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • Galloway's whole being was so expressive of conscious power, Florrie's of vacillating impulsiveness, that it required no considerable burden laid upon the imagination to picture the girl coming if he called ... if he called with the look in his eyes now, with the tone he knew to put into his voice.

    The Bells of San Juan Jackson Gregory 1912

  • This might have been a repetition of any one of a dozen episodes familiar to them both, but never, perhaps, had Elmer's ears burned so or Florrie's heart so disturbed her with its beating.

    The Bells of San Juan Jackson Gregory 1912

  • Florrie's thoughts were flitting hither and yon, bright-winged, inconsequential, fluttering about Jim Galloway, deserting him for Roderick Norton, darting off to Elmer Page, coming home to Florrie herself.

    The Bells of San Juan Jackson Gregory 1912

  • And yet Florrie's hyperbole had not been entirely without warrant.

    The Bells of San Juan Jackson Gregory 1912

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