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Examples
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It would be very interesting to him to know that his chore-boy was now a secretary to a millionaire.
The Adventures of a Boy Reporter Harry Steele Morrison
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He went aboard and met some of the friends he had made there, and found that they all knew now who it was they had carried as chore-boy in the galley.
The Adventures of a Boy Reporter Harry Steele Morrison
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Thither he had accompanied his mother, in 1815, serving as a chore-boy, and he had visited her just before her death, in 1823.
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His spare, dry figure, his prominent larynx, and the peculiar red of his face and hands belonged to the chore-boy he had never outgrown.
The song of the lark 1915
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Mr. Crawford accepted the offer and named a price far greater than any possible value of the book, and Abe set to work, spending all his spare time in the next two weeks shucking the corn and working as chore-boy.
Historic Boyhoods Rupert Sargent Holland 1915
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That's only my chore-boy you're slobberin 'over, Mister Devil.
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Dyer heard them often through his doze, just as he heard the chore-boy come in to build the fire and fill the water pail afresh.
The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909
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From no one, were he chore-boy or president, would they take a single word -- with the exception always of Tim Shearer and Thorpe.
The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909
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The veriest chore-boy talked, thought, dreamed of nothing but saw logs.
The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909
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Wallace Carpenter, Shorty, the chore-boy, and Anderson, the barn-boss, picked a dangerous passage back and forth carrying pails of red-hot coffee which Mrs. Hathaway constantly prepared.
The Blazed Trail Stewart Edward White 1909
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