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Dakota, and he said tailoring was a lot like drawing, so he sent me down to a punk hole called Curlew, to work in a tailor shop.
Main Street 2004
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I wanted to study drawing, and he had a cousin that'd made a lot of money tailoring out in Dakota, and he said tailoring was a lot like drawing, so he sent me down to a punk hole called Curlew, to work in a tailor shop.
Main Street 1920
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Cecilia fancied she descried Nevil's Petrel, dubbed Curlew, to Eastward, and had a faint gladness in the thought that his knowledge of his uncle
Beauchamp's Career — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Cecilia fancied she descried Nevil's Petrel, dubbed Curlew, to Eastward, and had a faint gladness in the thought that his knowledge of his uncle
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Cecilia fancied she descried Nevil's Petrel, dubbed Curlew, to Eastward, and had a faint gladness in the thought that his knowledge of his uncle
Beauchamp's Career — Volume 4 George Meredith 1868
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a lot like drawing, so he sent me down to a punk hole called Curlew, to work in a tailor shop.
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918
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A Portugee fisherman's picked up and brought in a boat with 'Curlew' painted on her stern, and he saw spars and wreckage driftin 'near the empty boat.
Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper
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"Curlew," the mate of the "Merlin," had been lost a short time before at sea, and as there was but one, and not two steamers on the route, so that
Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens
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I can imagine all sorts of curious and wonderful things about a closed-up house called 'Curlew's Nest'!
The Dragon's Secret Augusta Huiell Seaman 1914
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Or The Cruise of the Schooner-Yacht "Curlew" as Recorded by "Wash" by
Left on Labrador or, The cruise of the Schooner-yacht 'Curlew.' as Recorded by 'Wash.' 1887
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