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  • And now to see you coming along as cool as if nothing had happened; as if the humbrella had not lost its hivory 'andle, -- it's quite purvoking.

    Lucretia — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • And now to see you coming along as cool as if nothing had happened; as if the humbrella had not lost its hivory 'andle, -- it's quite purvoking.

    Lucretia — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • “Mary Hann now HAS haubin air, and a cumplexion like roses and hivory, and I’s as blew as Evin.

    Burlesques 2006

  • “Mary Hann now HAS haubin air, and a cumplexion like roses and hivory, and I’s as blew as Evin.

    The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006

  • "Mary Hann now HAS haubin air, and a cumplexion like roses and hivory, and I's as blew as Evin.

    Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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