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'Pawkins' was engraved; and four accidental pigs looking down the area.
Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841
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‘Pawkins’ was engraved; and four accidental pigs looking down the area.
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Major Pawkins then reserved his fire, and looking upward, said, with a peculiar air of quiet weariness, like a man who had been up all night — an air which
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Pawkins proposed an adjournment to a neighbouring bar – room, which, as he observed, was ‘only in the next block.’
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Major Pawkins (a gentleman of Pennsylvanian origin) was distinguished by a very large skull, and a great mass of yellow forehead; in deference to which commodities it was currently held in bar – rooms and other such places of resort that the major was a man of huge sagacity.
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Pawkins about the fat cattle, thereby showing that he did not mistake Pawkins for one of the waiters.
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But he could not get his mind off Pawkins, white in the face and making his last speech -- every sentence a beautiful opening for Hapley.
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There could be no reasonable doubt the fret of the defeat had contributed to the death of Pawkins.
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It is amazing how very widely diffused is the ignorance of such really important matters as this Hapley-Pawkins feud.
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In an elaborate critique he rent Pawkins to tatters -- one can fancy the man's disordered black hair, and his queer dark eyes flashing as he went for his antagonist -- and Pawkins made a reply, halting, ineffectual, with painful gaps of silence, and yet malignant.
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