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"Congee" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of four guineas, some shillings and half-pence, and a bundle of customers' measures, which they swore were bank-notes. They did not shoot him, and when they rode off he addrest them with profound gratitude, making a congee: "Gentlemen, I wish you good night, and we are very much obliged to you that you have not used us ill!" And this is the cuckoo that has had the audacity to foist upon me ten buttons on a side and a black velvet collar—A damn'd ninth ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Vol. 5 • Edited by E. V. Lucas |
Words linked to "Congee" : quit, permission, sacking, depart, gruel, permit, license, molding, bow, dismission, sack, discharge, firing, architecture, bow down, release, liberation, take leave, moulding, dismissal |
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