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If you've ever made one of these flathouse first calls you can fill in the rest for yourself.
Torchy As A Pa Sewell Ford 1907
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You would think if a feller forgets to buy a packet soap powder, y'understand, his wife wouldn't go crazy and ring up the police station yet, on account I am going with Baskof and this here cutter to see a lawyer by the name Sholy, which he lives in my flathouse yet.
Abe and Mawruss Being Further Adventures of Potash and Perlmutter Montague Glass 1905
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A block or two north of the Park, Dawe steered the editor again eastward, then, after covering a short distance, into a lofty but narrow flathouse burdened with a floridly over-decorated façade.
Strictly business: more stories of the four million O. Henry 1886
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a new flathouse, bearing carved upon its cheap stone portal its sonorous name, "The Vallambrosa."
Whirligigs O. Henry 1886
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