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1  They're using the telephone, mam.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
2  And used perfectly awful language.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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3  He'll make a bad use of it, I'm afraid.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
4  Now it doesn't matter before me: I'm used to it.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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5  I shall never be able to bring myself to use that word.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
6  The girl has just used it herself because the bath was too hot.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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7  It's no use talking to her like that, Mr. Higgins: she doesn't understand you.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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8  I daresay I am very old-fashioned; but I do hope you won't begin using that expression, Clara.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
9  Pickering is seated at the table, putting down some cards and a tuning-fork which he has been using.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
10  I haven't heard such language as yours since we used to review the volunteers in Hyde Park twenty years ago.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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11  I was brought up to be just like him, unable to control myself, and using bad language on the slightest provocation.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
12  Same with the doctors: used to shove me out of the hospital before I could hardly stand on my legs, and nothing to pay.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
13  She's no use: I've got all the records I want of the Lisson Grove lingo; and I'm not going to waste another cylinder on it.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
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14  Eliza has no use for the foolish romantic tradition that all women love to be mastered, if not actually bullied and beaten.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
15  Last night, when I was wandering about, a girl spoke to me; and I tried to get back into the old way with her; but it was no use.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT V
16  Then might I ask you not to come down to breakfast in your dressing-gown, or at any rate not to use it as a napkin to the extent you do, sir.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT II
17  When he was out of work, my mother used to give him fourpence and tell him to go out and not come back until he'd drunk himself cheerful and loving-like.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
ContextHighlight   In ACT III
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