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  • Until, biting at my sharp hidden hooks, they have to come up unto MY height, the motleyest abyss – groundlings, to the wickedest of all fishers of men.

    Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none 2001

  • The room was half full of the motleyest crew that it had ever been his ill fortune to set eyes on.

    The Uncalled A Novel Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889

  • Until, biting at my sharp hidden hooks, they have to come up unto my height, the motleyest abyss-groundlings, to the wickedest of all fishers of men.

    Thus Spake Zarathustra 1885

  • They ring all day with the motleyest life of fishermen, fruit-venders, chestnut-roasters, and idlers of every age and sex; and there is nothing so full of local color, unless it be the little up-and-down-hill streets in Genoa.

    Italian Journeys William Dean Howells 1878

  • Until, biting at my sharp hidden hooks, they have to come up unto MY height, the motleyest abyss-groundlings, to the wickedest of all fishers of men.

    Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche 1872

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