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appearing as such, but possibly not
- My ostensible errand on this occasion was to get measured for a pair of shoes; so I discharged that business first, and when it was done, I stepped across the clean and quiet little street from the shoemaker's to the post-office: it was kept by an old dame, who wore horn spectacles on her nose, and black mittens on her hands.Chapter 10 (48% in)
There are no more uses of "ostensibly" in Jane Eyre.
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