unearths some literary gems.
From The Blatchington Tangle, by G. D. H. and Margaret Cole:
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...a nervous-looking pale woman of about thirty-five, who was addressed as Miss Winter, but commonly without result.
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He had a wild idea of trying to pump Wicks Ellis; but how could one pump a mechanism which emitted a perfectly steady stream without any pumping at all?
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[P.S. The Coles are now (counting them as one!) the fourth author in whose work I've encountered a bandbox in the past couple of months--having never, as far as I can recollect, encountered the word prior to that.]
[Also: This is the second book I've recently read (not by the same authors) in which the surname Porteous appears.]
