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Naturally, the parson and the village cut up rough; my wife offered to get her into one of those reformatory what-d 'you-call-'ems, but the old fellow said she should n't go if she did n't want to.
The Island Pharisees John Galsworthy 1900
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Naturally, the parson and the village cut up rough; my wife offered to get her into one of those reformatory what-d 'you-call-'ems, but the old fellow said she should n't go if she did n't want to.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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You know here they haven't the bees or whatever it is that transfers the pollen from the stigma to the anther or what-d 'ye-call-it, and so they do it by hand with a piece of bamboo or a stem of grass.
Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900
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