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  • "Nevile," said Chevenix, "would put anything -- like anything.

    Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • Nevile sat on my stool, while I swept the floor and his sister mopped the bar with a rag.

    Donkey Dick Thomas Pluck 2011

  • He remained in solitary meditation after Nevile Henderson left, according to an informant for the New York Herald Tribune.

    Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

  • Meanwhile, another intermediary, Nevile Henderson, was also in negotiations to avert a war.

    Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

  • Archbishop Nevile, no fewer than 104 peacocks were dressed.

    Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

  • TWELVE Contents - Prev/Next Nevile Fawkes (botanist; a man who appreciated his own handsomeness by modeling his hair style after that shown on the traditional busts of Alexander the Great, but from whose appearance the presence of a nose far more aquiline than Alexander ever possessed noticeably detracted) was gone for two days, by Junior chronology, in one of the Triple G. 's atmospheric coasters.

    The Martian Way Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1955

  • Nevile Pawkes could see them all from the low ridge on which he stood.

    The Martian Way Asimov, Isaac, 1920- 1955

  • At any rate no bar sinister appeared on the imperial escutcheon repeated, with quarterings of Arundel, Mohun, Grenville, Nevile, Archdeckne,

    Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • He had loved her, of course, whatever she did -- outraging the law as well as keeping it, loving Nevile, letting himself go away.

    Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • "I don't think Nevile cares much, whatever I may do."

    Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution Maurice Hewlett 1892

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