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  • If it hadn't a bin for my nunky, your pal might have jest done a croak.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 24, 1892 Various

  • "Aye, nunky; and the worst is they say 'twas I that kill'd him."

    The Splendid Spur Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • All the leaves of the trees are kind of swimming in the red light, -- I tell you, nunky, just as if I was looking through red glass.

    The Village Watch-Tower Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • 'Ad a letter from nunky, old man, with another small cheque.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 15, 1892 Various 1876

  • "Don't you know that I have just come from nunky, my dear?"

    A Hungarian Nabob M��r J��kai 1864

  • "Hoo, hoo!" shouted his tormentor, mocking and making faces, with an expression of fiendish delight -- "thee 'ill be first though, nunky."

    Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) John Roby 1821

  • "Respected nunky, you are at times very terribly the man in the street!

    The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918

  • Try now, nunky! try hard to think that the right verb is really more important than the right vermouth! and you have no idea what good it may do you. "

    The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918

  • "Why, truly, nunky, thou art a strange one to talk of appearances.

    The Splendid Spur Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • "NO," he said hesitatingly, "she isn't pretty, nunky, but she's sweet and nice and dear, Everything on her shines, it's so clean; and when she comes through the trees, with her white apron and her purple calico dress, your heart jumps, because you know she's going to make everything pleasant.

    The Village Watch-Tower Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

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