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Examples
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The ascending air was hot, and had a heavy, sooty, paraffiny smell.
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Quite clean and not the least paraffiny, but dreadfully damp and cold.
Busman's Honeymoon Sayers, Dorothy L. 1937
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The ascending air was hot, and had a heavy, sooty, paraffiny smell.
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The cupboard under the stairs was very tight and paraffiny, however, and
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The ascending air was hot, and had a heavy, sooty, paraffiny smell.
Youth, a Narrative Joseph Conrad 1890
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What do you say -- the free cool air of the veldt, or this stuffy, paraffiny room? "
A Dash from Diamond City George Manville Fenn 1870
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