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He hurriedly left the vicinity, but before he had passed from sight, he turned his face toward the cottage, and shook a chinched hand toward the open door in which stood two forms -- Victoria and August Bordine.
Five Thousand Dollars Reward A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton
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Our fisherman sexton has just told me that "the church was right chinched last night."
Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour Katie Spalding 1911
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