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Good-afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well.
The Death of the Adverb? William Harryman 2007
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“Good-afternoon —” he said, and then stopped — why, he did not know, except that it came to him that something very portentous in his life was about to occur, and that it would need no furbishing but silence, and the proper amount of expectant attention.
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She looked up with a smile that was intended simply as an expression of politeness, and not such a smile as she would give a friend, and nodded: "Good-afternoon, Miss Custer."
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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"Good-afternoon," or "Good-day," I am not sure which, and then turned and went up the stairs again; and after standing thunderstruck a minute,
Real Ghost Stories William T. Stead
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"Good-afternoon, then," Mrs. Sand called out to him from the top.
Hilda A Story of Calcutta Sara Jeannette Duncan
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"Good-afternoon," she returned, passing on through the room.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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'Good-afternoon, dear,' said Miss Hampton, setting down the child, and offering an Arctic kiss to the reclining lady; 'I must go.'
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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"Good-afternoon" sounds too funny: is outside our vocabulary altogether.
An Englishwoman's Love-Letters Anonymous
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"Good-afternoon, madam, I am sorry to have insisted upon seeing you, but my business is very urgent."
A Successful Shadow A Detective's Successful Quest Harlan Page Halsey
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"Good-afternoon," he murmured, looking from Phœbe to Mother Bab and back again to Phœbe.
Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People' Anna Balmer Myers
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