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"Shelldrake," continued Mr. Billings, without noticing this by-play, "was a man of more pretence than real cultivation, as I afterwards discovered.
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Why, to be sure! 'replied Shelldrake' if I couldn't bear it, or if _you_ couldn't, your theory's done for.
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Shelldrake and his wife, and Abel Mallory were sitting together near the door.
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He, Shelldrake, and Hollins were to drink it in equal measures, and compare observations as to their physical sensations.
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Shelldrake gave a long whistle, and finally gasped out, --
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Shelldrake, or shellbird, is the name by which this duck is generally known, though how he came to be called so would be hard to tell.
Ways of Wood Folk William Joseph Long 1909
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The Shelldrake or Goosander (_Merganser americanus_).
Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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He, Shelldrake, and Hollins were to drink it in equal measures, and compare observations as to their physical sensations.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887
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Shelldrake and his wife, and Abel Mallory were sitting together near the door.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887
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Shelldrake gave a long whistle, and finally gasped out:
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887
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