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Examples

• Even the children were instructed, each to dip a wooden spoon into Mr. Micawber's pot, and pledge us in its contents. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I hope that contents you. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Papa often lets me open the letter-bag and give him out the contents. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Murder by a Madman, and the contents of the paper showed that Mr. Horace Harker had got his account into print after all. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Contents of chapter, “His birth and estate. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Left alone in the study, I opened the safe and withdrew the contents of the drawer in which he had told me I would find my instructions. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• And so arrange them as to have them always in order for immediate reference, with a note of the contents of each outside it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Mr. Helstone pushed up his spectacles from his nose to his forehead, handled his snuff-box, and administered to himself a portion of the contents. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It was well he did so; for Mr. Legree, having refitted Tom's handcuffs, proceeded deliberately to investigate the contents of his pockets. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• If the contents of the silo heat up to different degrees in different places we cannot expect them to be uniform in quality, though all will be eaten by the stock. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• I am, of course, familiar with the contents of these letters. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• After boiling, an d then cooling rapidly, the contents of the crucible proved a black glass. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Let the contents of the larder and the wine-cellar be brought up, put into the hay-carts, and driven down to the Hollow. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• These were the contents-- My Dear Fanny,--Excuse me that I have not written before. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• He told them so, as he poured its contents into what was left of the wine, and drank with a new relish. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

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