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  • Mrs. Jennings, though regretting that she had not been five minutes earlier, was satisfied with the compromise; and Elinor, as she swallowed the chief of it, reflected that, though its good effects on a cholicky gout were, at present, of little importance to her, its healing powers on a disappointed heart might be as reasonably tried on herself as on her sister.

    Sense and Sensibility 1811

  • Whenever he had a touch of his old cholicky gout, he said it did him more good than any thing else in the world.

    Sense and Sensibility 1811

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