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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.
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Did Mis 'Norris use her rale chany that the cap'n brung over, or only the gold-banded?
Sara, a Princess Fannie E. Newberry
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"She ain't chany, I tell yer; she's jest Injy rubber," said
Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller
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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
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You wouldnt like your chany to go for an old song and be broke to pieces, though yours has got no color in it, Jane, its all white and fluted, and didnt cost so much as mine.
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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.
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But theres none of em got better chany, not even your aunt Pullet herself; and I bought it wi my own money as Id saved ever since I was turned fifteen; and the silver teapot, too, your father never paid for em.
II. Mrs. Tullivers Teraphim, or Household Gods. Book IIIThe Downfall 1917
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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.
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But I know theyll 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. Tullivers Teraphim, or Household Gods. Book IIIThe Downfall 1917
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I wish it could be managed so as my teapot and chany and the best castors neednt be put up for sale, said poor Mrs. Tulliver, beseechingly, and the sugar-tongs the first things ever I bought.
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