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Examples
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The Spences are his close friends; they too have been working on
The Emancipated George Gissing 1880
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We don’t have Hot Topic back home but we have a different store called Spences and you walk in there and it’s like “Hey Rob, hey Rob, hey Rob, hey Taylor, how’s it going?”
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Therefore they did not press their visitors to remain and tactfully arranged that one of the servants instead of Roger should drive the Spences back over the Harbor
Flood Tide Sara Ware Bassett 1920
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The Spences had built their homestead in days when land was plentiful and, being a liberal-minded race, they had taken of it what they would.
The Window-Gazer Isabel Ecclestone Mackay 1901
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Possibly some time in the past the Spences had been a leisured people.
The Window-Gazer Isabel Ecclestone Mackay 1901
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She was living still with the Spences, and still in Italy.
The Emancipated George Gissing 1880
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He had put aside repeated invitations from the Spences, because of the doubt whether he could trust himself within sight of the Mediterranean.
The Emancipated George Gissing 1880
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She drove up by herself, and first of all saw the Spences.
The Emancipated George Gissing 1880
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A few days later, the Spences gathered friends about their dinner-table.
The Emancipated George Gissing 1880
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She blushed to be practising hypocrisy; the Spences were careful to refrain from interfering with her to-day, and here, withdrawn from their sight, she passed the hours in wearisome idleness -- in worse than that.
The Emancipated George Gissing 1880
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