The Chairman felt it his imperative duty to demand of the honourable gentleman, whether he had used the expression which had just escaped him in a common sense. Mr. Blotton had no hesitation in saying that he had not—he had used the word in its Pickwickian sense.
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But let us defend the poor battered old language against those who use words in private Pickwickian senses of their own[…]
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But we are prisoners in a Pickwickian sense; if we try we can break out of our frameworks at any time.
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This pattern of EEG and respiratory changes has been observed during both diurnal and nocturnal sleep in Pickwickian patients.
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