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All the copies of Chevillier's book, which I have seen, are printed upon what is called Foxey paper.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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"Red-head," said the soldiers, and little Peter laughed; but when one of them sometimes said to another, "Foxey," he would bite his teeth together and look another way -- into the wide world.
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He would have closed his eyes in bliss, would Foxey, Mr Quilp, if he could have found her such a partner.
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Foxey — our revered father, gentlemen — “Always suspect everybody.”
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It was a maxim with Foxey — our revered father, gentlemen — “Always suspect everybody.”
Presumption of Death Sayers, Dorothy L. 2002
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Up gets Foxey with a shriek and gallops around the house.
Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters Henry Wallace Phillips 1899
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Of course, when the other fellers saw this comin ', they didn't feel it restin' on their conscience to call your attention to it -- in fact, we sometimes busied one another talkin 'to give Foxey a fair field.
Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters Henry Wallace Phillips 1899
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As for Foxey, he just took one long look at the brute, curlin 'and uncurlin' his little tail; then "Hungh!" says he, and blinked his eyes shut, walkin 'away from there.
Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters Henry Wallace Phillips 1899
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Foxey had things his own way around the diggin's for some time.
Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters Henry Wallace Phillips 1899
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Then Foxey just shone white as ivory, and he'd trot around in front of us, gruntin 'to attract our attention, till everybody'd said, "What a beautiful, clean pig -- ain't he just right?"
Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters Henry Wallace Phillips 1899
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