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Examples
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What did Swithin Hall do — he was at Honolulu at the time — but make a straightaway run for Christmas Island.
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And the bunch he's got with him — Watson and Gorman their names are; they came in after you left — real sea-dogs, middle-aged, marred and battered, tough as rusty wrought-iron nails and twice as dangerous; real ugly customers, with guns in their belts, who don't strike me as just the right sort to be on such comradely terms with Swithin Hall.
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Like no bungalow in the tropics was this bungalow of Swithin Hall.
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If there's a windmill on the island, it's it — Swithin Hall's island.
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His accounts of life at St Swithin's, a fictional London teaching hospital, make the NHS seem harmlessly blundering and the doctors self-deprecatingly noble.
Safe in their hands? Margaret Drabble on the threat facing the NHS 2011
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Since you're Swithin Hall, then who the deuce am I?
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And it is equally in poor taste to have two Swithin
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Swithin Hall was a fat, round-faced man, with a laughing lip and laughter-wrinkles in the corners of his eyes.
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"My name's Hall, Swithin Hall," the other said, turning to shake
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It chanced that Grief had never before encountered Swithin Hall, yet the latter's fame as an expert at billiards was the talk of the beaches from Levuka to Honolulu.
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