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Even the allusion to those among their number who carried a brief "scratching their noses with it to impress the fact more strongly on the observation of the spectators," and the other allusion to those who hadn't a brief, carrying instead red-labelled octavos with "that under-done-pie-crust cover, technically known as law calf," was each, in turn, welcomed with a flutter of amusement.
Charles Kent - Charles Dickens as a Reader

Without a pause she turned to Durham and had the ugly wound on his scalp laid bare. Snipping the hair away from it, she lightly touched the bruised skin surrounding the jagged cut. "I'm afraid the skull is fractured I hope the doctor will soon be here," she whispered, as she busied herself with the cotton-wool and red-labelled bottle.
G. Firth Scott - The Rider of Waroona
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