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Examples
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Addle Valley is a kind of adventure type puzzle and escape game.
Archive 2007-10-01 2007
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Let's leave Jane Griffiths aside Adele, sorry I mean Anon, you speak so much like Addle no offence, do you approve of the posting of the video or not?
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Addle may or may not want to cease and desist from the vodka shock thing but will surely soon c and d from blogging it?
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But of course Addle did go partying with enemy forces from the A Class the night before.
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Addle-pate was the favourite epithet; and even if I had realised what was expected of me, it was difficult to understand their speech which was very different from that to which I was accustomed.
The Reluctant Queen Plaidy, Jean, 1906-1993- 1990
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Addle-pate was the favourite epithet; and even if I had realised what was expected of me, it was difficult to understand their speech which was very different from that to which I was accustomed.
The Reluctant Queen Plaidy, Jean, 1906-1993- 1990
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Poor _Muff_! he has no mother or sisters -- the only specimens of girlhood known to him are the maids at home, and the school-master's daughter, that dines with the parlour-boarders at Addle House: -- brave boy, thou art clever, but semi-civilized!
Christmas Comes but Once A Year Showing What Mr. Brown Did, Thought, and Intended to Do, during that Festive Season. John Leighton 1867
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Addle appeared engrossed with the attentions of others, and Harcourt not in the least jealous or annoyed.
From Jest to Earnest Edward Payson Roe 1863
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Addle-hill, Saint Bennet's-hill, Saint Peter's-hill, and Lambert-hill, with all their throng of habitations, were burning -- the black lines of ruined walls standing in bold relief against the white sheet of flame.
Old Saint Paul's A Tale of the Plague and the Fire William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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He, cramm'd full of wonderful Justice, makes me the _Vice_ my self, that only act the true duty of a Poet, and hold up the Glass for others to see their _Vices_ in, but his Malice will not be Authentick with every one, no more than his next Addle Criticism, upon my using the word
Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) Thomas D'Urfey 1688
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