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'Hookey' is an innocent-looking vice that leads to great trouble.
The Blue Birds' Winter Nest Lillian Elizabeth Roy 1900
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Constable, Justice of the Peace Ward 2: Erwin "Hookey" Evans, D, and Tony Johnson.
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Messrs. Hookey, of Holywell Street, pay you handsomely, I make no doubt you would like to be rewarded at a still higher figure.
Burlesques 2006
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For instance, I am not of a suspicious turn; but it IS a fact that when Hookey is bringing out a new work, he asks the critics all round to dinner; that when Walker has got his picture ready for the Exhibition, he somehow grows exceedingly hospitable, and has his friends of the press to a quiet cutlet and a glass of Sillery.
The Book of Snobs 2006
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Messrs. Hookey, of Holywell Street, pay you handsomely, I make no doubt you would like to be rewarded at a still higher figure.
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Hookey had been making lots of wheels and rims, for one thing, and someone must have been paying him to do it.
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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She recalled looking around and thinking that times had been good for sai Hookey, and of course she had been right.
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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Roy a corpse glaring up at the bitter sky, Quint fled, Hookey dead, the ranchers who had ridden with them gone.
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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Susan knew only one blacksmith in Barony capable of such fine work: Brian Hookey, to whom she had gone for Felicia's new shoes.
Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997
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Hookey, Loo, etc., etc., without reference to a manual on the subject.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton
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