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spick-and-span

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She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.

No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.

Mr. Spurrell came down to see a horse, and we shall be very glad to have the benefit of his opinion by-and-by.

Messrs. Spick and Span's representative was wounded in his tenderest point, but his firm carried out the order to the letter.

Part of that idea was sham bric-à-brac, the rest was carte blanche to Messrs. Spick and Span.

They were eaten too quickly, in long gulps of four-and-twenty hours at a time.

He walked over to the table and mixed two tumblers of whiskey-and-soda, wondering why he had not thought of it before.

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He paused, then mixed and drank another whiskey-and-soda, lit a cigarette, and resumed.

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Originally it had one great roof of a single span, second only to that of St. Pancras Station.

That was "back in the Sixties," when his lapses were as far apart as they were unrivalled in consumption, span, and pyrotechny.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985