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Why, when Ah saw you comin 'to the train, with that tall gen'leman - say, he's a right pretty feller, too.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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"What gen'leman are you referrin 'to, sir?" asks the Leatherneck, staring to his front.
THE NUMBERS 2010
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Why, when Ah saw you comin 'to the train, with that tall gen'leman - say, he's a right pretty feller, too.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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"What gen'leman are you referrin 'to, sir?" asks the Leatherneck, staring to his front.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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Why, when Ah saw you comin 'to the train, with that tall gen'leman - say, he's a right pretty feller, too.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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"What gen'leman are you referrin 'to, sir?" asks the Leatherneck, staring to his front.
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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"'E' it the gen'leman with all his might and main," said the policeman.
Ayala's Angel 1993
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"You no tink dat four officers and de passenger gen'leman all eat muchee food; very good appeta-tites havee."
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"He come 'teal de coffee out ob de coppers, an' w'en I 'peak to him like gen'leman he hit um in the eyeball, him."
The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg
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"You tink youself one fine gen'leman now, I s'pose?" he said, with a snort of indignation, when Jake went down into the waist in all this grand array after prayers on the poop.
The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg
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