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Never mind the bend-sinister, said my uncle Toby, putting on his tye-wig. —
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Never mind the bend-sinister, said my uncle Toby, putting on his tye-wig. —
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The devotees get to think that all human knowledge centres in their peculiar science and the cognate mysteries and exquisite scientific manipulations of heraldry, and they may be heard talking with compassionate contempt of some one so grossly ignorant as not to know a bar-dexter from a bend-sinister, or who asks what is meant by a cross potent quadrate party per pale.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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One of these intellectual tyrants, a man of great ability, when he quarrelled with any one, used to threaten to "bastardise" him, or to find the bend-sinister somewhere in his ancestry; and his experience in long genealogies made him feel assured, in the general case, of finding what he sought if he went far enough back for it.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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Athwart the picture of my Lady, over the great chimney - piece, it throws a broad bend-sinister of light that strikes down crookedly into the hearth and seems to rend it.
Bleak House Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1853
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Athwart the picture of my Lady, over the great chimney - piece, it throws a broad bend-sinister of light that strikes down crookedly into the hearth and seems to rend it.
Bleak House Charles Dickens 1841
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Has the bend-sinister been brush’d out, I say? said my father. —
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No, indeed, said my father — you may go with my aunt Dinah to a visitation with a bend-sinister, if you think fit — My poor uncle Toby blush’d.
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Has the bend-sinister been brush’d out, I say? said my father. —
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No, indeed, said my father — you may go with my aunt Dinah to a visitation with a bend-sinister, if you think fit — My poor uncle Toby blush’d.
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