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  • I can drop a gyro dinner fine enough for my little man boss who toughs the thin skin with his barbed tangle tongue, but my fingers ain't fine enough to pour amber glasses of Mo-schko-FEE-lero for the hoity toit that plant their asses in the A seats at night.

    Epithelial Sample 2009

  • Coolest would have to be the faux-lero pattern, which I'm still waiting on Janet to sew, so I can see it hint hint, another would be a 1932 Vogue Pattern Book, that has a handwritten note next to one dress, saying that she's wearing that dress on election night, to the

    Lisa of Miss Helene's - A Dress A Day 2008

  • Coolest would have to be the faux-lero pattern, which I'm still waiting on Janet to sew, so I can see it hint hint, another would be a 1932 Vogue Pattern Book, that has a handwritten note next to one dress, saying that she's wearing that dress on election night, to the

    November 2008 2008

  • Lero, lero, etc. With duns and with debts we will soon clear our score,

    Waverley 2004

  • Another useful analogy is with the cabal - lero of Spain, the man with only a horse, a lance and a proud name.

    Poland Michener, James 1983

  • Lero, lero, etc. With duns and with debts we will soon clear our score,

    The Waverley 1877

  • Lero, lero, etc. Old women, on whom devolved the duty of lamenting for the dead,

    The Waverley 1877

  • "_Fal, lero, loo_," appears as a chorus in a song by George Wither

    The Celtic Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1875 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Literature, History, Antiquities, Folk Lore, Traditions, and the Social and Material Interests of the Celt at Home and Abroad Various 1865

  • Lero, lero, etc. [Footnote: These lines, or something like them, occur in an old magazine of the period.]

    Waverley — Volume 2 Walter Scott 1801

  • Lero, lero, etc. With duns and with debts we will soon clear our score,

    Waverley — Volume 2 Walter Scott 1801

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