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If Madame Guyon had been acquainted with the story of the good old woman, who brought a chafingdish to burn paradise, and a pitcher of water to extinguish hell, that God might be loved for
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Messagepostumia, lentling out his borrowed chafingdish, before cymbaloosing the apostles at every hours of changeover.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Fred lifted the cover of the chafingdish and stirred the contents.
The Song of the Lark Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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