Example Sentences

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You are apprenticed to a trunk-maker; how, or why, or when, or wherefore, you don’t take the trouble to inquire; but there you are, pasting the lining in the lid of a portmanteau. 

From Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people by Dickens, Charles