Example Sentences

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"She has been dunning me for two hundred francs, but she can't screw ten out of me—not even tenpence."

From Four Short Stories By Emile Zola by Zola, Émile

You know that greasy fellow who has been dunning you so of late.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

Dilly has been dunning me to see Fanny Manley; but I have not yet been able to do it.

From The Journal to Stella by Swift, Jonathan