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Effingham

[ ef-ing-ham ]

noun

  1. a town in central Illinois.


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The next year he was appointed to the Effingham, a new frigate building at Philadelphia.

He waited, however, in vain; he saw the Effingham and the whole fleet sail—no Mr. Hartley arrived.

They were now riding through a vast wood, and Phineas found himself delightfully established by the side of Violet Effingham.

General Effingham lived long enough to hear the Earl declare that his lot was the happier of the two.

But he did not recognise the propriety of sacrificing Violet Effingham even for work so good as this.

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