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Minnie makes a chocolate mousse for the Woodhouses to eat on the night they decide to conceive a baby.
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The Seward family cultivated an 'open door' policy at the Bishop's Palace, holding breakfast, tea, dinner and supper parties and musical evenings, to which many from the prebendary houses in The Close: The Addenbrookes, Smallbrookes, Woodhouses, Vyses and the Garrick ladies.
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He must know that the Woodhouses had been settled for several generations at Hartfield, the younger branch of a very ancient family, and that the Eltons were nobody.
The Least-Liked Austen: Thoughts on Emma Abigail Nussbaum 2007
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He must know that the Woodhouses had been settled for several generations at Hartfield, the younger branch of a very ancient family — and that the Eltons were nobody.
Emma 2004
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He must know that the Woodhouses had been settled for several generations at Hartfield, the younger branch of a very ancient family -- and that the Eltons were nobody.
Emma Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 2001
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Instead of having needle-work in her hand, Jane had a pen, which was often dropped just in the midst of one of her clear, incisive pictures of the Woodhouses, Knightleys, and Bennets, as neighbors who might have served for the originals of those characters were announced.
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Woodhouses, the red and silver of the Worsleys, the swords of the
The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Woodhouses, with the amulets of the Musgraves of Westmoreland.
The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Woodhouses, in-door pumps, sinks, drains, self-shutting gates, washing machines, pounding barrels, were all new things, and told me that I was among a thoughtful and sensible people.
My Bondage and My Freedom Frederick Douglass 1856
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Woodhouses, in-door pumps, sinks, drains, self-shutting gates, washing machines, pounding barrels, were all new things, and told me that I was among a thoughtful and sensible people.
My Bondage and My Freedom. By Frederick Douglass. With and Introduction. By James M`Cune Smith. 1855
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