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Benny Hardwater was a bare thirteen, and Lish Dickery, whose family was near neighbour to mine in Elkton, was just turned sixteen.
Chapter 19 2010
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More than anything else, I think it was this that caused the death of Lish Dickery.
Chapter 19 2010
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Benny Hardwater was a bare thirteen, and Lish Dickery, whose family was near neighbour to mine in Elkton, was just turned sixteen.
Chapter 19 2010
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More than anything else, I think it was this that caused the death of Lish Dickery.
Chapter 19 2010
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Dickery, whose family was near neighbor to mine in Elkton, was just turned sixteen.
Chapter 19 1915
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Barbara silently gave him her hand and then remained passive in the background, where Dickery held aloof, smiling in what seemed his perpetual enjoyment of the Juliet
A Pair of Patient Lovers William Dean Howells 1878
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She was renewing all her whispered and out-spoken charges when Dickery showed himself at her side, put his hand under her elbow, and wheeled her about, and while she called gayly over her shoulder to the others, "Did you ever?" walked her definitively out of the house.
A Pair of Patient Lovers William Dean Howells 1878
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He did not know if Barbara looked any protest, -- at least she spoke none, -- and Juliet went out with Dickery.
A Pair of Patient Lovers William Dean Howells 1878
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Now, you recite 'Dickery, dickery dock' and 'I want to be an angel,' and you have cut all your wisdom teeth. "
Mae Madden Mary Murdoch Mason
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"Dickery, dickery, dock!" chanted Schehati solemnly, as he hauled again; "Moses ran up the clock.
The Rosary 1909
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