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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

  • 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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