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sundry
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
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- The woman opened to him the door of a little parlor, covered with a rag carpet, where stood a table with a very shining black oil-cloth, sundry lank, high-backed wood chairs, with some plaster images in resplendent colors on the mantel-shelf, above a very dimly-smoking grate; a long hard-wood settle extended its uneasy length by the chimney, and here Haley sat him down to meditate on the instability of human hopes and happiness in general.†
Chpt 1.8sundry = various
- Mr. Haley pulled out of his pocket sundry newspapers, and began looking over their advertisements, with absorbed interest.†
Chpt 1.12 *
- "Shif'less!" said Miss Ophelia to herself, proceeding to tumble over the drawer, where she found a nutmeg-grater and two or three nutmegs, a Methodist hymn-book, a couple of soiled Madras handkerchiefs, some yarn and knitting-work, a paper of tobacco and a pipe, a few crackers, one or two gilded china-saucers with some pomade in them, one or two thin old shoes, a piece of flannel carefully pinned up enclosing some small white onions, several damask table-napkins, some coarse crash towels, some twine and darning-needles, and several broken papers, from which sundry sweet herbs were sifting into the drawer.†
Chpt 1.18
- Her woolly hair was braided in sundry little tails, which stuck out in every direction.†
Chpt 2.20
- And, accordingly, thus escorted by a boy wheeling her trunk, and Emmeline behind her, carrying her carpet-bag and sundry bundles, she made her appearance at the small tavern, like a lady of consideration.†
Chpt 2.42
Definitions:
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(1)
(sundry) various; or of various kinds
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) More rarely, sundried is an alternative spelling for sun-dried--referring to something that has been dried by the sun such as raisins or bricks.