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Laura

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Lau´ra
n.1.(R. C. Ch.) A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior.


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Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking; Lady Dalrymple had taken a house, for three months, in Laura Place, and would be living in style.
Persuasion by Austen, Jane View in context
The water-colour drawing that I made of Laura Fairlie, at an after period, in the place and attitude in which I first saw her, lies on my desk while I write.
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Stelling considered she was doing Tom a service by setting him to watch the little cherub Laura while the nurse was occupied with the sickly baby.
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