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Usage examples of house-warming.

Hence it came that Asquith, before the house-warming, knew as little about Farquhar Fenelon Cooke, the man, as the nineteenth century knows about William Shakespeare, and was every whit as curious.

He made us cappuccino with the machine he had given me as a house-warming gift--no pfft-shhhhhhhh sounds and instant powder for us, only the real thing would do.

I--" She interrupted him with laughter, and Mary Vertrees's laugh was one which Bibbs's father had declared, after the house-warming, "a cripple would crawl five miles to hear.

But here Tari went on to instance the new house of Toma and the house-warming feast which was just then in preparation as instances in point.