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Authors names: Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912 (2) Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863 (2)

Subject tags: miss pinkerton (2) jimmie (2) miss (2)

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Synonyms: Miss; drop; escape; fille; girl; lack; leave out; lose; misfire; miss; missy; neglect; omit; overleap; overlook; pretermit; young lady; young woman

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  1.  Across the Fruited Plain / Means, Florence Crannell, 1891-1980
    , shutting them away from any help for Jimmie. Next morning, Miss Pinkerton, the nurse at the Center, came ... didn't make any of them fat. But Jimmie grew better, and one shining morning Miss Pinkerton stopped and said  details...
  2.  Rosy / Molesworth, Mrs., 1839-1921
    , Miss Pink, Rosy's governess. Her real name's Miss Pinkerton, but it's so long, she doesn't mind us ... without him, and everybody felt sorry he had gone. The day after he left Miss Pinkerton came back  details...
  3.  Vanity Fair / Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863
    morning in June, there drove up to the great iron gate of Miss Pinkerton's academy for young ladies ... beside the fat coachman, uncurled his bandy legs as soon as the equipage drew up opposite Miss Pinkerton  details...
  4.  John Leech's Pictures of Life and Character / Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863
    's huge galleries can't we walk as safely as through Miss Pinkerton's schoolrooms? And as we look at Mr ... and company were in the room. Cheerful relatives used to treat us to Miss Linwood's. Let the children  details...
  5.  Fly Leaves / Calverley, Charles Stuart, 1831-1884
    all the stuff one can. Sweet to haste, a licensed lover, to Miss Pinkerton the glover, Having managed ... Tales in Miss Rossetti's ear; Importuning her in strangest, Sweetest tones to buy their fruits:- O  details...
  6.  In Friendship's Guise / Graydon, Wm. Murray
    Sharpe hurled the offending dictionary at the scandalized Miss Pinkerton. Tempted by the signboard ... -workers at Julian's Academy would miss him from his accustomed place. Bright-eyed grisettes flung coy looks  details...
  7.  Lost Leaders / Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912
    into flirtation. He keeps up a correspondence with a young lady in Miss Pinkerton's establishment. They see ... " rather melancholy reading. Thirty years have not passed since Lauder died, and how much he would miss  details...
  8.  Letters on Literature / Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912
    after the school of Miss Pinkerton, at Chiswick. Indeed, as the little song-story has been translated into modern ... have missed, with many other admirable things, the "Last Battle in the West." People who come after us will  details...