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  • All the copies of Chevillier's book, which I have seen, are printed upon what is called Foxey paper.

    Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

  • "Red-head," said the soldiers, and little Peter laughed; but when one of them sometimes said to another, "Foxey," he would bite his teeth together and look another way -- into the wide world.

    Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen 1840

  • He would have closed his eyes in bliss, would Foxey, Mr Quilp, if he could have found her such a partner.

    The Old Curiosity Shop 2007

  • Foxey — our revered father, gentlemen — “Always suspect everybody.”

    The Old Curiosity Shop 2007

  • It was a maxim with Foxey — our revered father, gentlemen — “Always suspect everybody.”

    Presumption of Death Sayers, Dorothy L. 2002

  • Up gets Foxey with a shriek and gallops around the house.

    Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters Henry Wallace Phillips 1899

  • Of course, when the other fellers saw this comin ', they didn't feel it restin' on their conscience to call your attention to it -- in fact, we sometimes busied one another talkin 'to give Foxey a fair field.

    Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters Henry Wallace Phillips 1899

  • As for Foxey, he just took one long look at the brute, curlin 'and uncurlin' his little tail; then "Hungh!" says he, and blinked his eyes shut, walkin 'away from there.

    Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters Henry Wallace Phillips 1899

  • Foxey had things his own way around the diggin's for some time.

    Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters Henry Wallace Phillips 1899

  • Then Foxey just shone white as ivory, and he'd trot around in front of us, gruntin 'to attract our attention, till everybody'd said, "What a beautiful, clean pig -- ain't he just right?"

    Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters Henry Wallace Phillips 1899

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