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  • Mother Smeeth isn't there holding your little hanny, so you lose that itty-bitty marble you call a brain, Wendy thought angrily as she trailed the phone back to its cradle and dropped it with a thunk.

    Fault Line Andrews, Sarah 2002

  • "Yo-hanny, you're lookin 'jaded under Colonel Safetypin." said Casey.

    The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories Owen Wister 1899

  • “The earl!” repeated Mrs. Garnett; “dear me, my lady! no, not the earl — I meant the devil; though, if I was to take the liberty to speak my mind, I might say that he — But I would not for the world be so undiscrit, to speak in that there way of my betters; and nobody can say that ever I was ill-mannerdly, or at all given to hannivert, or speak opinions about hanny body.”

    Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments 1821

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