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Examples

  • You won't make any use of it to my detriment at Kenge and Carboy's or elsewhere.

    Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853

  • Sir, I have come out of my articles at Kenge and Carboy's, and I believe with satisfaction to all parties.

    Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853

  • As it was the day of the week on which I paid the bills, and added up my books, and made all the household affairs as compact as possible, I remained at home while Mr. Jarndyce, Ada, and Richard took advantage of a very fine day to make a little excursion, Mr. Boythorn was to wait for Kenge and Carboy's clerk and then was to go on foot to meet them on their return.

    Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853

  • My present salary, Miss Summerson, at Kenge and Carboy's, is two pound a week.

    Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853

  • And I spoke in such terms as I was bound to speak of Kenge and Carboy's office, which stands high.

    Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853

  • Some of the inscriptions I have enumerated were written in law-hand, like the papers I had seen in Kenge and Carboy's office and the letters I had so long received from the firm.

    Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853

  • His satisfaction communicates itself to a third saunterer through the long vacation in Kenge and Carboy's office, to wit, Young Smallweed.

    Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853

  • "Either this boy sticks to it like cobbler's-wax or there is something out of the common here that beats anything that ever came into my way at Kenge and Carboy's."

    Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853

  • A young gentleman who had inked himself by accident addressed me from the pavement and said, "I am from Kenge and Carboy's, miss, of Lincoln's Inn."

    Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853

  • It was a capital letter, not a printed one, but just such a letter as any clerk in Messrs. Kenge and Carboy's office would have made.

    Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853

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