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We have seen the place: it is not a nice one. They got him ashore at last. The park-keeper here going along found them dripping, rubbing his hands, and blowing into his nostrils. Name, T. Shellen, son of a small cobbler here, and recovered.
George Meredith - Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 3

"Vara true, sirr; vara true, and sae I doot I will never attain the height o' profeeciency ye hae reached. An' at this vara moment, sir," continued Groove, with delicious solemnity and mystery, "ye see before ye, sir, a man wha is in maist dismal want o' ten shellen!" Gaattie." "Why did you not come to the point at once?" cried Gatty, bruskly, "instead of humbling me with undeserved praise.
Charles Reade - Christie Johnstone

We have seen the place: it is not a nice one. They got him ashore at last. The park-keeper here going along found them dripping, rubbing his hands, and blowing into his nostrils. Name, T. Shellen, son of a small cobbler here, and recovered.
George Meredith - Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete

Crows shortly. "It don't pay. Let 'em set in the dark." "Not enough passengers, eh?" "Moren enough fat old wommen on the out journey," declared Mr. Crows passionately. "That's because it's all up-hill. But they walk in downhill to save a shellen. I know them." He brooded darkly. "It's all part of the plan," he went on.
Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees - The Moon Rock
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