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They was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling.
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They was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling. And, my souls, how the people yelled and laughed, and kept it up. But I didn’t see no joke about it, and I judged it would strain the duke and the king some to see any. I reckoned they’d turn pale. But no, nary a pale did they turn.
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A man of gentle but not noble birth, particularly a man of means (originally ownership of property) who does not work for a living but has no official status in a peerage; an armiferous man ranking below a knight.
From this reading “They was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling.”
Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.
From this reading “And, my souls, how the people yelled and laughed, and kept it up.”
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From this reading They was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling.
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From this reading But I didn’t see no joke about it, and I judged it would strain the duke and the king some to see any.
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From this reading They was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling.
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From this reading They was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling.
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From this reading But I didn’t see no joke about it, and I judged it would strain the duke and the king some to see any.
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From this reading They was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling.
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From this reading But I didn’t see no joke about it, and I judged it would strain the duke and the king some to see any.
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From this reading But no, nary a pale did they turn.
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From this reading But I didn’t see no joke about it, and I judged it would strain the duke and the king some to see any.
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From this reading But I didn’t see no joke about it, and I judged it would strain the duke and the king some to see any.
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From this reading They was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling.
A man of gentle but not noble birth, particularly a man of means (originally ownership of property) who does not work for a living but has no official status in a peerage; an armiferous man ranking below a knight.
From this reading They was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling.
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From this reading They was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling.
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From this reading And, my souls, how the people yelled and laughed, and kept it up.
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From this reading But I didn’t see no joke about it, and I judged it would strain the duke and the king some to see any.
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From this reading They was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling.
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From this reading And, my souls, how the people yelled and laughed, and kept it up.
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From this reading But I didn’t see no joke about it, and I judged it would strain the duke and the king some to see any.
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From this reading But I didn’t see no joke about it, and I judged it would strain the duke and the king some to see any.
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From this reading And, my souls, how the people yelled and laughed, and kept it up.
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From this reading But I didn’t see no joke about it, and I judged it would strain the duke and the king some to see any.
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From this reading And, my souls, how the people yelled and laughed, and kept it up.
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From this reading And, my souls, how the people yelled and laughed, and kept it up.
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From this reading But no, nary a pale did they turn.
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From this reading They was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling.
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From this reading But I didn’t see no joke about it, and I judged it would strain the duke and the king some to see any.
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From this reading They was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling.
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From this reading They was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling.
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From this reading I reckoned they’d turn pale.
Used as plural of person; a body of human beings considered generally or collectively; a group of two or more persons.
From this reading And, my souls, how the people yelled and laughed, and kept it up.
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From this reading I reckoned they’d turn pale.
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From this reading They was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling.
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From this reading But I didn’t see no joke about it, and I judged it would strain the duke and the king some to see any.
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From this reading They was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling.
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From this reading But I didn’t see no joke about it, and I judged it would strain the duke and the king some to see any.
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From this reading And, my souls, how the people yelled and laughed, and kept it up.
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From this reading But I didn’t see no joke about it, and I judged it would strain the duke and the king some to see any.
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From this reading And, my souls, how the people yelled and laughed, and kept it up.
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From this reading They was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling.
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From this reading I reckoned they’d turn pale.
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From this reading But I didn’t see no joke about it, and I judged it would strain the duke and the king some to see any.
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From this reading I reckoned they’d turn pale.
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From this reading And, my souls, how the people yelled and laughed, and kept it up.
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From this reading They was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling.
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From this reading They was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling.
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From this reading They was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling.
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From this reading But I didn’t see no joke about it, and I judged it would strain the duke and the king some to see any.
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From this reading And, my souls, how the people yelled and laughed, and kept it up.
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From this reading They was fetching a very nice-looking old gentleman along, and a nice-looking younger one, with his right arm in a sling.
