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  • I'm gonna get Trim's "Soulfood Vol. 3" today as this whole beef with Flowdan seems to be getting ridiculous.

    What's New In Dart's iPod #23 AKA I'm Here All Week! Dart Adams 2008

  • Tests will be done to see if it's Trim's body they recovered.

    CNN Transcript Apr 25, 2007 2007

  • This time Emily did tumble Trim's cup, spilling cold water down his bare chest.

    Once An Angel Medeiros, Teresa, 1962- 1993

  • Meanwhile Trim's father, a man near seventy years of age, who lived only a stone's-throw away, hearing the uproar, and being told the gang had come for his son, ran to the house with the intention, as he afterwards declared, of persuading him to go quietly.

    The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore

  • Trim's plan of operation ran so in my Uncle Toby's head, he could not taste it.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 08 — Fiction Various 1910

  • Ware laughed, knowing Trim's ways, and motioned him out of the room.

    A Coin of Edward VII A Detective Story Fergus Hume 1895

  • The symbolization of Dr. Topham's snug “patent place,” which he wished to make hereditary, under the image of the good warm watchcoat, is of course plain enough; and there is some humour in the way in which the parson (the Archbishop) discovers that his incautious assent to Trim's request had been given ultra vires.

    Sterne Traill, H D 1882

  • And we get a foretaste of the familiar Shandian impertinence in the remark which follows, that “there are many good similes subsisting in the world, but which I have neither time to recollect nor look for,” which would give you an idea of the parson's astonishment at Trim's impudence.

    Sterne Traill, H D 1882

  • Susanah laid her head on Trim's shoulder -- 'but corruption!'

    History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873

  • The boat was generally propelled by paddles, but when the river was shallow, poles were used to punt us along, as on English rivers; the black padrone, whose superior position was indicated by the use of decent clothing, standing at the helm, gesticulating wildly, and swearing Spanish oaths with a vehemence that would have put Corporal Trim's comrades in Flanders to the blush.

    Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands 1857

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