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Examples
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"Naughty, naughty mamma -- make 'Lizbet' _ky_!" she cried out, stamping her small foot angrily.
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She was in Canada, where -- according to every Royal Northwest movie Lizbet had ever seen -- the Mounties were large and incorruptible and a girl could think without worrying about stopping a shiv in her back.
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Lizbet looked up out of a mess of dyed hair, gunsmoke, sweat, and tears.
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So Lizbet took barely the time to grab an old summer mink and a fistful of unaltered mementos from Grady's latest personal appearance before she did an impromptu vanishing act of her own.
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Thirty minutes after the Limited rolled out of the terminal Detectives Johnson and Goldberg, attired as North Country backwoodsmen and lugging battered suitcases, swaggered behind Lizbet into the smoking car of a sooty, suffocating all-coach local-express entitled laughingly in the timetables The Snowball.
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Train leaves Marmion and never shows up at the next station south, where we're waiting to take Lizbet off.
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Ellery and Inspector Queen found Lizbet on the floor of the smoking car with assorted recumbent passengers, in a litter of hot cartridge shells, while Detectives Johnson and Goldberg prepared rather shakily to enjoy a couple of king-size cigarettes.
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Now, in underworld society a romantic attachment of almost three years 'duration is equivalent to an epic passion, and Lizbet may be forgiven the folly of having developed delusions of permanence.
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Grady will assume that you'll get Lizbet to New York as quickly as possible.
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Having thought, Lizbet slung the summer mink about her plump shoulders, taxied to the nearest police station, and demanded protection and immunity in exchange for a pledge to take the witness stand back home and talk herself, if need be, into lockjaw.
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