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  • OPINIONS before the next Election, when I intend to hoffer myself as a Candydick for Parlymint.

    Burlesques 2006

  • OPINIONS before the next Election, when I intend to hoffer myself as a Candydick for Parlymint.

    The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006

  • "Well," the friend counseled, "you just get her into a corner some'eres and say to 'er,' Dearest 'Attie, I hoffer you my' and hand my 'eart.'"

    Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart

  • "If you kick me, sir," said Binger with dignity, "I shall hoffer my resignation."

    The Black Edgar Wallace 1903

  • My hown cuthen'th gone to Mithter Wemmick at thith prethent minute, to hoffer him hany termth.

    Great Expectations Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1861

  • My hown cuthen'th gone to Mithter Wemmick at thith prethent minute, to hoffer him hany termth.

    Great Expectations 1860

  • "Vas the hoffer a good one?" asked Steel Spring, in a low voice.

    The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia William Henry Thomes 1859

  • "You won't git the hoffer twice," she said, sitting down again.

    The Garret and the Garden 1859

  • Jem persisted in returning no answer but this: "You want your dinner, captain; eat your dinner, and then I'll hoffer a hobservation; meantime, as these woods are queer places, a little hextra caution is no sin."

    It Is Never Too Late to Mend Charles Reade 1849

  • "Well," the friend counseled, "you just get her into a corner some'eres and say to 'er,' Dearest 'Attie, I hoffer you my' and hand my 'eart.'"

    Letters of a Woman Homesteader 1847

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