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Cockayne

/ kɒˈkeɪn /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of Cockaigne


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Cockayne is Naples in these pages—Naples given over to the lottery, crazed, debauched and beggared by it.

Amiable land of Cockayne, happy in itself, and in making others happy!

Mrs. Cockayne went through that stiffening process which ladies of dignity call drawing themselves up.

If Mr. Cockayne could only consent to tear himself away from board-meetings, and devote a little time to his own flesh and blood.

Now Mr. Cockayne had never had the most distant idea of leaving the ladies of his family to go alone to Paris.

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