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Canon Furbelow is against pools or betting of any sort.
Best Detective Stories Hare, Cyril, 1900-1958 1959
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"Canon Furbelow, " said White, -conducted a series of children's services during Advent.
Best Detective Stories Hare, Cyril, 1900-1958 1959
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It was Furbelow, indeed, restored to life by Zonéla's care, and who had come down a narrow tube, that no human being could have threaded, to console the poor captive.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various
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Furbelow, throwing him hot pennies to pick up, and burning his poor little hands; and oh! sometimes, Solon, the men in the street make me so afraid, -- they speak to me and look at me so oddly!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various
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Furbelow, who, unreasoning and undiscriminating, begged from the first person that was near.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various
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Furbelow, -- and keep me up in a garret, and give me ever so little to eat?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various
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_Penis_ in his Hand, went to the Window from the Ladies, and pulling up his Petticoats, pretended he had fix'd it round his Waste, and putting the Instrument in a Furbelow of his Gown, he advanc'd to the Bed where
Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites Giles Jacob
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"Oh, that's so nice!" said Zonéla, innocently, -- pinching poor Furbelow, as she spoke, in order to dispel a very evident snooze that was creeping over him.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various
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So sink th 'blarsted Navy, an' ol 'Admiral Furbelow!
Gold Out of Celebes Aylward Edward Dingle
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When he had disappeared, the frozen Zonéla thawed, and with a shriek of anguish flung herself on the inanimate body of Furbelow.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various
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