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- proper noun A
surname .
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Examples
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Kersley (Henry) on bishops and their precedence, 91.
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Kersley (T.H.), A.B. on Thomas Rogers of Horninger, 521.
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Kersley detected it at once -- as I knew he would; and that was before the midnight episode in Olga's room.
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"Why do you suppose I came tearing down here to-night, leaving Kersley to kill all my patients as well as his own?"
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"What a good thing I didn't tell her, eh, Kersley?"
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Kersley on the other hand was so confident that he practically hoofed me out of
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Kersley was engaged to marry her mother when he detected in her a tendency to madness which he afterwards discovered to be an hereditary taint in her family.
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"Come and have a wash, Kersley!" he said, and with characteristic decision marched him away.
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_I_ enjoy things as they are, anyway, and if Kersley doesn't it's his own lookout.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) Various 1887
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Ellen had stumped upstairs after the last cup of coffee, leaving Kersley to clear the table, or that the babies might wake up and cry.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) Various 1887
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