Word: bunching
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...think she's pretty, Hal? Amy is the only cousin I've got that I care a bunch of cigarettes for, but she's nice as she can be, if I do say it." So my chum, Dick Roberts, expressed himself to me as we stood looking into the dancing parlor of the Bay View House of an evening last July. I had just arrived on the evening coach, and was gathering my first impressions of the place and people...
...whistle a tune in a bunch of keys...
Carried a bunch of ripe Catawba grapes...
...heard the noise of a pair of shoes set cautiously down. Then a key was thrust quietly into the lock; there was no hesitation, it went straight in, but did not govern it. Then it was removed, and there was a suppressed rattling heard, as of a key-bunch...
Another grievance connected with college rooms occurred but a few days ago. The goody in one of the buildings so far deviated from her usual lady-like behavior as to get drunk. While in this state she lost the bunch of keys which serve as an insignia of her office and admit her to our various dens. A new goody was appointed, and the next morning only those rooms were attended to which happened to be opened when she went her rounds. Remonstrated with for neglect, she said that the College expected a new key to be provided...