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Examples
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Without a word Jemmy unbuttoned his coat and produced the five packets.
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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
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'Going to,' replied Puffington, whom they called Jemmy because his name was
Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"Jemmy," she said, her slippered foot lifting the counterpane.
Hero Come Back Laurens, Stephanie 2005
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And I will venture to say that "Jemmy" never had rarer or pleasanter praise.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various
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The prince affects much "Jemmy" dress and air; 180 age will doubtless soften down the juvenile taste and affectation.
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