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Examples
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And these she scattered chancewise all over the room, without even looking to see where they fell.
La faute de l'Abbe Mouret ��mile Zola 1871
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A fatalist as he was after his own fashion, he could not find strength to quit the pavements of Paris, but there awaited arrest, like a social waif carried chancewise through the multitude as in
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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And on being repulsed by the ushers, he walked away, taking the Concorde bridge, slowly, as if chancewise, like a man who knows not whither he is going.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete ��mile Zola 1871
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And on being repulsed by the ushers, he walked away, taking the Concorde bridge, slowly, as if chancewise, like a man who knows not whither he is going.
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
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A fatalist as he was after his own fashion, he could not find strength to quit the pavements of Paris, but there awaited arrest, like a social waif carried chancewise through the multitude as in
The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871
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A fatalist as he was after his own fashion, he could not find strength to quit the pavements of Paris, but there awaited arrest, like a social waif carried chancewise through the multitude as in
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 2 ��mile Zola 1871
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And on being repulsed by the ushers, he walked away, taking the Concorde bridge, slowly, as if chancewise, like a man who knows not whither he is going.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 1 ��mile Zola 1871
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