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Shuttleworthy's heart good to see the old fellow swallow it, as he did, quart after quart; so that, one day, when the wine was in and the wit as a natural consequence, somewhat out, he said to his crony, as he slapped him upon the back -- "I tell you what it is, 'Old Charley,' you are, by all odds, the heartiest old fellow I ever came across in all my born days; and, since you love to guzzle the wine at that fashion, I'll be darned if I don't have to make thee a present of a big box of the Chateau-Margaux.

He called me Old Crony, as I used to come to him in the field and follow him about.

The roof was mended, a kitchen maid was found--a crony of the village elder's--hens were bought, the cows began giving milk, the garden hedge was stopped up with stakes, the carpenter made a mangle, hooks were put in the cupboards, and they ceased to burst open spontaneously, and an ironing-board covered with army cloth was placed across from the arm of a chair to the chest of drawers, and there was a smell of flatirons in the maids' room.

"What, Monsieur Fix, are you on board?" returned the really astonished Passepartout, recognising his crony of the Mongolia.

Salton was delighted when Adam's reply arrived and sent a groom hot-foot to his crony, Sir Nathaniel de Salis, to inform him that his grand-nephew was due at Southampton on the twelfth of June.

He used to go ashore every night to foregather in some hotel's parlour with his crony, the mate of the barque Cicero, lying on the other side of the Circular Quay.

My father has renewed an acquaintance with an old crony who used to visit him at the Hague, and to ask him to let him see the prison.

He was a dashing young fellow, and a political crony of old Hugh.

Jeannette Margaret Crony, nee Wolff, age 90, of Glen Carbon, Illinois and formerly of Evansville and Chester, passed away at Rosewood Care Center in Edwardsville, Illinois on June 7, 2019.

Summary: New Delhi [India], May 5 (ANI): Reliance Group on Sunday dismissed Congress president Rahul Gandhi's claim that Anil Ambani is "a dishonest businessman and crony capitalist." Gandhi's claims are "patently untrue statements," said a spokesperson of Reliance Group.

The crony company Sogaz is the leading insurance company.

In an article in the Sunday Mail of January 14, 2018, I argued that the Cyprus economic system exhibited many of the hallmarks of crony capitalism.