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Examples
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And now to see you coming along as cool as if nothing had happened; as if the humbrella had not lost its hivory 'andle, -- it's quite purvoking.
Lucretia — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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And now to see you coming along as cool as if nothing had happened; as if the humbrella had not lost its hivory 'andle, -- it's quite purvoking.
Lucretia — Volume 04 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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“Mary Hann now HAS haubin air, and a cumplexion like roses and hivory, and I’s as blew as Evin.
Burlesques 2006
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“Mary Hann now HAS haubin air, and a cumplexion like roses and hivory, and I’s as blew as Evin.
The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006
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"Mary Hann now HAS haubin air, and a cumplexion like roses and hivory, and I's as blew as Evin.
Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
sionnach commented on the word hivory
Allergy to elephant tusks.
November 16, 2007