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  • Think of how much income the Guardian job pages would lose should your thinking become prevalent, think of how many groups would be unable to benefit from the largesse of Red Ken and Lee Grasper, what would the Diversity Directorate (or whatever they are now called) do, what would all those trainers and chief inspectors, inspectors and sergeants do - back to borough?

    And Did Those Feet….. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • During her time at World Eaters Academy, she had to live with a host of nasty nicknames, like Chicken Bones and Flarg Grasper, which was another rude way of saying she had skinny legs.

    Alienated DAVID O. RUSSELL 2009

  • During her time at World Eaters Academy, she had to live with a host of nasty nicknames, like Chicken Bones and Flarg Grasper, which was another rude way of saying she had skinny legs.

    Alienated DAVID O. RUSSELL 2009

  • I wonder if little Kennie is enjoying the press coverage he's getting now he's been forced to suspend Lee Grasper...

    A pointless Livingstone promise 2008

  • Ahaz, "the Grasper," one of the vilest and most ungodly of the Judean monarchs, and of Hezekiah, the good king, about a century and a half before the destruction of Jerusalem.

    Who Wrote the Bible? : a Book for the People Washington Gladden 1877

  • The loss to all parties would have been light, had Grasper not sacrificed so much to secure his own debt.

    Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them 1847

  • This was worse to Grasper than if he had come out and said over and over again just what he thought of the other's conduct.

    Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them 1847

  • Year after year passed on, and Layton's business gradually enlarged, until he was doing at least four times as much as Grasper, who now found himself much oftener the buyer from, than the seller to,

    Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them 1847

  • This reason was more than suspected by Grasper and it worried him exceedingly.

    Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them 1847

  • I dreamed that Grasper was so selfish a man as to disregard every one's interests in the eager pursuit of his own, I would, long before he had me in his power, have made a general assignment for the benefit of the whole.

    Lessons in Life, for All Who Will Read Them 1847

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