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"Kenelm," he said, entering into his customary dialogue with that self,
Kenelm Chillingly — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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And then they went forth together, a good way thence, till they came to a hawthorn, and there he pight the rod in the earth, and forthwith incontinent it bare green leaves, and suddenly it waxed to a great ash tree, the which standeth there yet unto this day, and is called Kenelm’s ash.
The Golden Legend, vol. 4 1230-1298 1900
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How the Chillinglys ever gave birth to a Kenelm is a question much more puzzling. "
Kenelm Chillingly — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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How the Chillinglys ever gave birth to a Kenelm is a question much more puzzling. "
Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"Kenelm," he said, entering into his customary dialogue with that self, "it becomes you, forsooth, to moralize about the honour of races which have no affinity with you.
Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 03 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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When in Fairbanks, he travels with Kenelm Philip, the dean of Alaskan collectors and the possessor of thousands of immaculately curated specimens in glass-topped cabinet drawers.
Butterfly Quest Harry Zirlin 2010
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And if he is serious in his pretensions in such mystical matters, we should, according to the faith of my grandfather, Kenelm, do insult to the deceased, whose name is taken in the mouth of a soothsayer, or impious enchanter.
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He thus brought an overpowering force upon the bands of Waltheoff and Engelred, who found no resource but to throw the females of their tribe, and such as could, not bear arms, into a convent dedicated to St. Augustin, of which Kenelm their relation was prior, and then turning to the battle, vindicated their ancient valour by fighting it to the last.
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My grandsire, Kenelm, was wont to say, that the fair words of the heathen philosophy were more hurtful to the
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Curiously, the books Aileen liked she liked — Jane Eyre, Kenelm Chillingly, Tricotrin, and A Bow of
The Financier 2004
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