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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • "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

  • 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

  • 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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