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The limping palliard tore the bandages from his mock wounds, shouldered his crutch, and trudged hastily after them.— Rookwood
30] "Togged out to the ruffian, no doubt," said the palliard, who was incomparably the shabbiest rascal in the corps.— Rookwood
No whip-jack, palliard, patrico;— Rookwood
Next to the knight of Malta stood the whip-jack, habited in his sailor gear -- striped shirt and dirty canvas trousers; and adjoining him was the palliard, a loathsome tatterdemalion, his dress one heap of rags, and his discolored skin one mass of artificial leprosy and imposthumes.— Rookwood
He ran back a few yards to give himself an impetus, returned, and, placing his hands upon the shoulders of a stalwart vagabond near to him, threw a summerset upon the broad cap of a palliard, who was so jammed in the midst that he could not have stirred to avoid the shock; thence, without pausing, he vaulted forwards, and dropped lightly upon the ground in front of— Rookwood
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