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Examples
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I've been meaning to get the Hewetson book for some time now.
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And Commissary-General Hewetson has been instructed to take immediate steps for the transfer of the quantity remaining in store in the depôt at Cork to Limerick, in the charge.
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke
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From the terms of the memorandum just quoted, it is evident that, in their intercourse with Commissary Hewetson, they were clamouring for emigration.
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke
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But, as I pointed out to Hewetson, he suffers just as acutely when he has a holiday and goes to Paris.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-05 Various 1898
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Hewetson holds that there is only one theatre in Paris, the Variétés.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-05 Various 1898
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Hewetson in his simple-minded way also wanted the company to be called the
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-05 Various 1898
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But his heart-rending account of his last visit to Paris, before the War, when he and Mrs.H. spent two days hunting round the Louvre (Musée) under the impression that the RODINS were kept there, suggested a wider scope for my schemes, and it seemed to me that the only fair way of acknowledging this was to make Hewetson a director.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-05 Various 1898
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Captain Hewetson, who at Kidd's trial testified to his bravery; but a few weeks later his men, ex-pirates apparently, ran away with his ship.
Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898
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I pointed out to him that they should be uninviting and dull in appearance, and that a uniform sobriety, a suggestion of yearning and uplift, in every feature of the company's appeal would not only allow thousands of hypocrites, like Angela, to seek relief at our doors, but would actually confer on people like Hewetson and me a stamp of that same intellectual passion from whose manifestations we are engaged in escaping.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-05 Various 1898
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Hewetson wanted the certificates to be issued in the waiting-room.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-05-05 Various 1898
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