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Examples
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Mr. Chew said Raffles's growth wouldn't be affected by its involvement with Oriental.
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Raffles's time our tone was good, or that such influence as he troubled to exert was on the side of the angels.
Heroes Walter Jon Williams 2007
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Raffles's time our tone was good, or that such influence as he troubled to exert was on the side of the angels.
Archive 2007-07-01 Walter Jon Williams 2007
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Corned beef is Raffles's favorite thing in all the world, and Carolyn had brought a little extra and slipped it into his food dish, where he was at once eating it and talking to it, a ritual he goes through with kosher corned beef and nothing else.
The Burglar On The Prowl Block, Lawrence 2004
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So perhaps it is not entirely inappropriate to include here a story which sheds a little light upon this aspect of Raffles's character; you will, I know, understand that it is still necessary for me to be imprecise, if not downright untruthful, as to some of the details.
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I said as I passed them -- I did not use Raffles's name, for you were never absolutely sure with him that he was going about under his true identity.
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At noon the next day, I rang Raffles's bell in the Albany, and he let me in.
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So perhaps it is not entirely inappropriate to include here a story which sheds a little light upon this aspect of Raffles's character; you will, I know, understand that it is still necessary for me to be imprecise, if not downright untruthful, as to some of the details.
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I shrank back at the roar from behind us; even Raffles's imperturbability was shaken.
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Prompt at seven thirty on the Tuesday, I knocked on Raffles's door, and he let me in.
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