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Usage examples of oates.

But Oates and the young gentlemen have got to go to the Bull for their drop of tiddley.

As Oates was late, she decided to take on his job of laying the dinner-table.

She had watched where Oates kept his handful of tools, and discovered that he left them where he had used them, With this clue to guide her, she found the box stuck away in a corner of the boot-closet, in the hall, As this was not a legitimate job, she crept up the stairs to The first floor landing, and knelt before the door.

Helen did not relish her job, when she found Oates stretched before the kitchen fire, enjoying his first pipe after his work.

As the girl reeled back under the force of the blow, Mrs Oates gripped her shoulders and practically hurled her out of the kitchen.

The person who waited outside might be Oates, who had returned--sooner than she had dared to hope.

She dreamed of Oates and Evans and Bowers and of Scott, a small man, half hidden by blowing snow and sunglare on the ice.

Scott, Bowers, and Wilson all knew that the failing Oates was going out into the blizzard to his death.

Maggie Oates, forty-five if a day, and still supplying men practically on me doorstep.

But she knew other people went to Maggie Oates, because she was a friendly creature.

Maggie Oates who, as everybody knew for miles around, was a real bad woman and shunned by all other women hereabouts because she was so sinful.

Ellen recalled Maggie Oates vividly, and the day she was buried too, because that was the day of the hurricane in January, thirty-nine.

And after it was all over people remembered that Maggie Oates had been buried on that day.