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I do not choose to give the street and number of the house where she lives, but a-great many poor people know very well where it is, and as a matter of course the rich ones roll up to her door in their carriages by the dozen every fine Monday while anybody is in town.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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I do not choose to give the street and number of the house where she lives, but a-great many poor people know very well where it is, and as a matter of course the rich ones roll up to her door in their carriages by the dozen every fine Monday while anybody is in town.
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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They feel a-great pride in them; and all good landlords feel the same in having their villages filled with tenants who have such ties.
A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822
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Which caufed a-great numberof the Nobility, Proteftants and Papifts to Communi - cate their inward minds, and fecreteft intentions unto him.
The Memoires of Sir James Melvil of Hal-Hill: Containing an Impartial ... 1683
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1 1 DOring this Whiter there was a-great Convention 'between' Calk and drdrtfs, where Cardinal Pttl was appointed: Mediator by the; Pope, to agree tHeTWo great Princes, but without any effcS.
The Memoires of Sir James Melvil of Hal-Hill: Containing an Impartial ... 1683
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