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Examples
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Sheldon sent a house-boy for his thermometer and glanced questioningly at the captain.
Chapter 3 2010
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Jerry knew this, as did his father and mother and brother, for they had smelled the unmistakable burnt-meat smell, and Terrence, in his rage of knowledge, had even attacked Mogom the house-boy, and been reprimanded and cuffed by Mister Haggin, who had not smelled and did not understand, and who had always to impress discipline on all creatures under his roof-tree.
Chapter 1 2010
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The manager clapped his hands, and a black house-boy, recruited from San Cristobal, came running.
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Sheldon gave the keys of the handcuffs to a house-boy, who went under the house and loosed the prisoner.
Chapter 2 2010
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Sheldon clapped his hands, and the running house-boy hurried away to bring back Adamu Adam and Noa Noah.
Chapter 26 2010
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The house-boy extended the whip to him, but Billy did not take it.
Chapter 2 2010
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The gate was ajar, and he sent the house-boy to close it.
Chapter 1 2010
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While he was being introduced to Deacon, McMurtrey dispatched a house-boy with the pants, and when Captain Donovan came in it was as a white man should — at least in Goboto.
A GOBOTO NIGHT 2010
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Viaburi, the house-boy, brought him corrosive sublimate and water, and he took a thorough antiseptic wash.
Chapter 1 2010
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Koho stood up, clapped his hands, and, when the house-boy answered, signed that he desired his rifle.
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