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Examples
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For the sake of a footing in Penrhyn Castle and Glencarrick, Tib bore all insolence and all trouble.
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You shall go and make out what all this means; where Lady Penrhyn is gone, and what the ---- she is up to.
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The circumstance appeared to Tib's kindly suitor to be a direct interference of Providence to save Lady Penrhyn from the scandal and distress of an open quarrel with her husband.
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Sir Stephen Penrhyn is still willing to marry you.
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And Tib feels as though she ought to blush, at being asked after an unhappy creature who was separated from her husband, and died in retirement; but Tib cannot blush; so she rubs the end of her nose with the tight white glove which covers the fat hand the Duchess used to worry; and she answers sharply, that she knows very little more than that Lady Penrhyn is dead; and that "of course," after she left Sir Stephen, she, Tib, saw no more of her.
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This ecoregion consists of the relatively well-defined Northern and Southern Line Islands groups as well as the ill-defined Northern Cook Islands (Pukapuka, Rakahanga, Manihiki, Penrhyn, and Suwarrow Atolls).
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The two snails in the rear are Lady Penrhyn and Charlotte.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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Behind them was a ship he thought Lady Penrhyn, then the three storeships, and those two sets of masts on the horizon.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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The women convicts had been moved off Friendship to make room for sheep and a few cattle; Lady Penrhyn carried a stallion, two mares and a colt for the use of the Governor; other ships held more horses and cattle; there were sheep, pigs and poultry everywhere, and water was looming as a huge problem.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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She swore she would go—the fiercest monsters and Indians held no terrors for her after Lady Penrhyn and Englishmen, she said.
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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