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  • Everything is in the handsomest style, — silver and goold plate at breakfast, lunch, and dinner; and his crest and motty, a beehive, with the Latn word industria, meaning industry, on everything — even on the chany juggs and things in my bedd-room.

    The Great Hoggarty Diamond 2006

  • Did Mis 'Norris use her rale chany that the cap'n brung over, or only the gold-banded?

    Sara, a Princess Fannie E. Newberry

  • "She ain't chany, I tell yer; she's jest Injy rubber," said

    Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller

  • Then she asked me if I knew what palms was; and she said when she was dead she wanted me to have her little pink chany box that Miss Maria Elliot give her once, when she bought some blueberries of her.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 Various

  • You wouldn’t like your chany to go for an old song and be broke to pieces, though yours has got no color in it, Jane, —it’s all white and fluted, and didn’t cost so much as mine.

    III. The Family Council. Book III—The Downfall 1917

  • You must bring your mind to your circumstances, Bessy, and not be thinking o’ silver and chany; but whether you shall get so much as a flock-bed to lie on, and a blanket to cover you, and a stool to sit on.

    III. The Family Council. Book III—The Downfall 1917

  • But there’s none of ’em got better chany, not even your aunt Pullet herself; and I bought it wi’ my own money as I’d saved ever since I was turned fifteen; and the silver teapot, too, —your father never paid for ’em.

    II. Mrs. Tulliver’s Teraphim, or Household Gods. Book III—The Downfall 1917

  • “It drives me past patience to hear you all talking o’ best things, and buying in this, that, and the other, such as silver and chany.

    III. The Family Council. Book III—The Downfall 1917

  • But I know they’ll none of ’em take my chany, ” she added, turning toward the cups and saucers, “for they all found fault with ’em when I bought ’em, ’cause o’ the small gold sprig all over ’em, between the flowers.

    II. Mrs. Tulliver’s Teraphim, or Household Gods. Book III—The Downfall 1917

  • “I wish it could be managed so as my teapot and chany and the best castors needn’t be put up for sale, ” said poor Mrs. Tulliver, beseechingly, “and the sugar-tongs the first things ever I bought.

    III. The Family Council. Book III—The Downfall 1917

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