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  • And I also did not know of the marvelous things that can be found and shared, so the Shopkins-Fossick blog was educational, indeed.

    Archive 2010-02-01 mrdantefontana 2010

  • And I also did not know of the marvelous things that can be found and shared, so the Shopkins-Fossick blog was educational, indeed.

    Let's Go Op-Shopping! baikinange 2010

  • After Jack comes old black-booted Blossomnose; and Messrs. Wake, Fossick, and Fyle, complete our complement of five.

    Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

  • Fossick just wrote below, 'I'll see you hanged first,' and sent it back without putting even a fresh head on the envelope.

    Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

  • 'Mornin', 'said his lordship, with a snatch of his hat in return, as he pulled up and stared into the cloud-enveloped crowd;' Mornin ', Fyle; mornin', Fossick, 'he continued, as he distinguished those worthies, as much by their hats as anything else.

    Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

  • Can you, Capon? 'exclaimed Fossick, appealing to another of the' flat brims, 'whose luminous face now shone through the fog.

    Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

  • 'Nothing of the sort! nothing of the sort!' exclaims Fossick, 'I know every yard of the country, and you can't make more nor eight of it anyhow, if eight.'

    Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

  • 'Wonders will never cease!' observed Fossick, looking Washy over.

    Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

  • 'Then the country's grown bigger since my day,' rejoins Fossick, 'for I was dropped at Stubgrove, which is within a mile of where you found, and I've walked, and I've ridden, and I've driven every yard of the distance, and you can't make it more than eight, if it's as much.

    Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

  • Fossick was on foot, drawing his girths; Fyle was striking a light to smoke a cigar on his hack; Blossomnose and Capon's grooms were fistling and wisping their horses; Dribble, as usual, was all behind; and altogether there was such a scene of hurry and confusion as never was seen.

    Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

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