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Spirited stuff, and it was just sheer bad luck that the Bishop and other visiting Pecksniffs should already be taking tea with Elspeth and Miss Prentice when we rolled in through the french windows, the damp and dirty grandlings in full voice and myself measuring my ancient length across the threshold, flask and all.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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The alternative is a nation of Pecksniffs, choking on virtue.
Bring Back the Robber Barons Daniel Henninger 2010
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What words can paint the Pecksniffs in that trying hour?
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The two Miss Pecksniffs being a pretty good match for the three Miss
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It would be difficult, if not impossible, to conceive a family so thoroughly taken by surprise as the Pecksniffs were, on this occasion.
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Nothing could exceed the astonishment of the two Miss Pecksniffs when they found a stranger with their dear papa.
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Oh blessed star of Innocence, wherever you may be, how did you glitter in your home of ether, when the two Miss Pecksniffs put forth each her lily hand, and gave the same, with mantling cheeks, to Martin!
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Yes, when yet the two Miss Pecksniffs lisped in language scarce intelligible, they called that individual
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If the two Miss Pecksniffs and Mrs Todgers had perished by spontaneous combustion, and the serenade had been in honour of their ashes, it would have been impossible to surpass the unutterable despair expressed in that one chorus, ‘Go where glory waits thee!’
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In truth, perhaps even the spirits of the two Miss Pecksniffs, and the hungry watchfulness of Mrs Todgers, were less worthy of note than the proceedings of this remarkable boy, whom nothing disconcerted or put out of his way.
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