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Examples
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One by one they rushed from the room, till at length a smothered cacchination from one of the little ones awoke cousin Betty, who exclaimed:
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Pablo laughed briefly, lightly, mirthlessly, his cacchination carefully designed to convey the impression that he considered the question extremely superfluous.
The Pride of Palomar 1918
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Am I to gather from that cacchination that you dont agree with me, Mr Tanner?
Act II 1903
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Am I to gather from that cacchination that you don't agree with me, Mr Tanner?
Man and Superman George Bernard Shaw 1903
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The widow did laugh; dignity, in those days, did not deny the privileges of an honest cacchination even to nobility; and, we are constrained to admit, as had been predicted by Porgy, that her sides did shako; but not vulgarly, or with too ostentatious a display of the commotion within and without.
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And, at the close, the recollection of his achievement prompted a glorious burst of cacchination from the throat of our military financier.
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They chopped off their heads; then, poising these on the points of spears, tossed them to and fro, all the while shouting in savage glee, laughing with a cacchination that resembled the mirth of a madhouse.
The Lone Ranche Mayne Reid 1850
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-- suddenly from the sward before, from the groups beyond, there floated to the ears of Richard Avenel an indescribable, mingled, ominous sound -- a sound as of a general titter -- a horrid, malignant, but low cacchination.
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