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He was degraded in their eyes; he had lost caste and station before the very paupers; he had fallen from all the height and pomp of beadleship, to the lowest depth of the most snubbed hen-peckery.
Oliver Twist Charles Dickens 1841
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The transaction didn't have to be filled with hen-peckery.
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