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  • Reginald Fitzwarren, Esquire, looks splendid in a perspectus; and the raskle owns that he has made two thowsnd.

    The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006

  • Reginald Fitzwarren, Esquire, looks splendid in a perspectus; and the raskle owns that he has made two thowsnd.

    Burlesques 2006

  • Reginald Fitzwarren, Esquire, looks splendid in a perspectus; and the raskle owns that he has made two thowsnd.

    Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • "This here bein 'chief engineer of a popcorn machine ain't what it's said to be in the perspectus.

    Sundown Slim Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

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