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  • Without a word Jemmy unbuttoned his coat and produced the five packets.

    Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 1902

  • We both wheeled round and had our guns in readiness, but soon perceived they were the same as were friendly last night, and I called Jemmy to speak to them.

    Explorations in Australia, Illustrated, John Forrest 1882

  • 'Going to,' replied Puffington, whom they called Jemmy because his name was

    Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

  • Fourteen porters came out, and each took a package with the greatest civility; calling Jemmy her ladyship, and me your honor; ay, and your honoring and my ladyshipping even my man and the maid in the cab.

    Cox's Diary 2006

  • Fourteen porters came out, and each took a package with the greatest civility; calling Jemmy her ladyship, and me your honor; ay, and your honoring and my ladyshipping even my man and the maid in the cab.

    Burlesques 2006

  • O'Keefe has a character in his farce of _The Farmer_, called Jemmy

    The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810

  • Fourteen porters came out, and each took a package with the greatest civility; calling Jemmy her ladyship, and me your honor; ay, and your honoring and my ladyshipping even my man and the maid in the cab.

    Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • "Jemmy," she said, her slippered foot lifting the counterpane.

    Hero Come Back Laurens, Stephanie 2005

  • And I will venture to say that "Jemmy" never had rarer or pleasanter praise.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

  • The prince affects much "Jemmy" dress and air; 180 age will doubtless soften down the juvenile taste and affectation.

    Camps and Firesides of the Revolution 1902

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