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There were, withinsight, an auctioneer's and fire-agency office, a corn-factor's,a linen-draper's, a saddler's, a distiller's, a grocer's, and ashoe-shop--the last-mentioned warehouse being also appropriated tothe diffusion of hats, bonnets, wearing apparel, cotton umbrellas,and useful knowledge.<>
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When everybody had eaten as muchas possible, the cloth was removed, bottles, glasses, and dessert wereplaced on the table; and the waiters withdrew to 'clear away,'or inother words, to appropriate to their own private use and emolumentwhatever remnants of the eatables and drinkables they could contrive tolay their hands on.<>
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There was a regular army of blue flags, somewith one handle, and some with two, exhibiting appropriate devices, ingolden characters four feet high, and stout in proportion.<>
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Consider, Sir, howmany appropriate characters are open for your selection.<>
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There wasthe young lady who 'did' the poetry in the Eatanswill GAZETTE, in thegarb of a sultana, leaning upon the arm of the young gentleman who'did' the review department, and who was appropriately habited in afield-marshal's uniform--the boots excepted.<>
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As to the poor relations, theykissed everybody, not even excepting the plainer portions of the younglady visitors, who, in their excessive confusion, ran right under themistletoe, as soon as it was hung up, without knowing it! Wardle stoodwith his back to the fire, surveying the whole scene, with the utmostsatisfaction; and the fat boy took the opportunity of appropriating tohis own use, and summarily devouring, a particularly fine mince-pie,that had been carefully put by, for somebody else.<>
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There were many classes of people here, from thelabouring man in his fustian jacket, to the broken-down spendthrift inhis shawl dressing-gown, most appropriately out at elbows; but therewas the same air about them all--a kind of listless, jail-bird, carelessswagger, a vagabondish who's-afraid sort of bearing, which is whollyindescribable in words, but which any man can understand in one momentif he wish, by setting foot in the nearest debtors' prison, and lookingat the very first group of people he sees there, with the same interestas Mr. Pickwick did.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) On the floor of the room, a man in a broad-skirted green coat, withcorduroy knee-smalls and gray cotton stockings, was performing the mostpopular steps of a hornpipe, with a slang and burlesque caricature ofgrace and lightness, which, combined with the very appropriate characterof his costume, was inexpressibly absurd.<>
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( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'You don't think there is any probability of his appropriating the moneyto his own use?' said Mr. Pickwick.<>
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(Chesterton The secret of father Brown ) Anyhow, after a life of romantic escapes and tricksof evasion, he had ended at what some might consider an appropriateaddress: in a castle in Spain.<>
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Vaudrey remembered the silly insult for years and years, till hecould get the Oriental into the improbable neighbourhood of a pig-sty;and then he took, what he considered the only appropriate and artisticrevenge.<>
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Oh, my God! he liked his revenges to be appropriate andartistic.<>
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