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Examples
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"She certainly does," answered the chainmaker contemplatively.
L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871
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The other, who was thirty, had married a chainmaker -- a man by the name of Lorilleux.
L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871
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And he would go up himself for the ten francs so boldly and yet so amiably that the chainmaker never dared refuse them.
L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871
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Gervaise was saying at the same moment, speaking of the chainmaker and his wife.
L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871
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One day the two sisters, the flower-maker and the chainmaker came to blows about
L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871
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"Yes, there's a certain resemblance," replied the chainmaker.
L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871
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"It shall be next Sunday, if you like," said the chainmaker.
L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871
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The chainmaker, pale and shivering, held in his pocket the gold chains he was going to deliver; and he coughed and asked them to excuse him, saying that the least drop of brandy would nearly make him split his sides.
L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871
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The chainmaker pretended, with a chuckle, to be greatly surprised; whilst his wife, leaving her draw-plates, placed herself in the middle of the work-room.
L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871
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She had married a deadpan chainmaker named Lorilleux.
L'Assommoir ��mile Zola 1871
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