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Examples
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"coony," he is, in the main, merciful, his breast overflowing with the milk of human kindness.
The Death Shot A Story Retold Mayne Reid 1850
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Which is fine by me: what could be prettier than a quite coony baby with bright green beautiful eyes?
Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958
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Which is fine by me: what could be prettier than a quite coony baby with bright green beautiful eyes?
Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958
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The Saucy Willow's fam'ly is goin 'about lookin' partic'lar harmless an 'innocent; but they're coony enough to be in camp that day.
Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885
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"Why" said I, quite coony and innocently -- "Somebody recommended it to me too -- I read a little of it, which indeed seem'd to be above the common place works of this kind."
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"The chase was not a long one, for in a few seconds the steady barking of the dogs told us that poor ` coony 'was ` treed.'
The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850
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