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  • Teta Elzbieta would put the clothesbasket in which the baby slept alongside of his mattress, and Jurgis would lie upon one elbow and watch him by the hour, imagining things.

    The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

  • Sheila, flanked by clothesbasket and workbasket, sat on the veranda mending his shirts.

    Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters 1916

  • Teta Elzbieta would put the clothesbasket in which the baby slept alongside of his mattress, and Jurgis would lie upon one elbow and watch him by the hour, imagining things.

    The Jungle 1906

  • And she took something out of the clothesbasket, and spread it on the ironing-blanket.

    The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter 1904

  • And she took something out of the clothesbasket, and spread it on the ironing-blanket.

    The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter 1904

  • And she took something out of the clothesbasket, and spread it on the ironing-blanket.

    The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter 1904

  • When the great clothesbasket full of sweeties, the result of a subscription among the young men, was carried round by two of them, he helped himself liberally with the rest; and at the inevitable game of forfeits met his awards with unflinching obedience; contriving ever through it all that Lizzy Findlay should feel herself his favourite.

    Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

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