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Gladys and Ethel lived in Clapham
Gladys and Ethel lived in Clapham and told her that they came in to all her concerts and sat for hours waiting on the stairs.
— from Tante by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Got an extra luncheon in case
I still had the lost bag in my outer pocket, which I watched jealously, for its bulk could be but too plainly seen; and when Dave and I found ourselves moving slowly upward at the tip of one of those giant spokes of the big wheel, he fixed his eye upon this pocket, and asked with a grin: 'Got an extra luncheon in case we are stranded in mid-air until past the Christian dinner-hour?'
— from Against Odds: A Detective Story by Lawrence L. Lynch

Georgiana and Edward lived in Canada
Georgiana and Edward lived in Canada until a few years ago.
— from The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine by Katherine Stokes


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