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A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that!
Archive 2006-12-01 2006
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A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that!
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Now that I come to think of it, maybe the laundress's animosity didn't stem from a jealous heart after all.
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Poirot retrieved his laundress's communication, apologized gracefully once more, and left the room.
Hercule Poirot's Casebook Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1984
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The laundress's defection and other domestic worries may have had something to do with it.
Missy Dana Gatlin
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A smell like an eating house and a pastry cook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that!
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But she had loned a girl at school five dollars and was going to write for it at once, and thought she could sell a last year's sweater for three dollars to their laundress's daughter.
Bab: a Sub-Deb Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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But she had loned a girl at school five dollars and was going to write for it at once, and thought she could sell a last year's sweater for three dollars to their laundress's daughter.
Bab: A Sub-Deb 1917
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Coupeau, who had been smoking a cigarette on the pavement, had prevailed on her to go inside as she crossed the road returning from taking home a customer's washing; and her large square laundress's basket was on the floor beside her, behind the little zinc-covered table.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Various 1910
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A smell like an eating-house and a pastrycook's next door to each other, with a laundress's next door to that!
The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902
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