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  • 'You are such a waspish, raspish, ill-conditioned chap, you see,' said Mr. Bounderby, 'that even your own Union, the men who know you best, will have nothing to do with you.

    Hard Times 1876

  • 'You are such a waspish, raspish, ill-conditioned chap, you see,' said Mr. Bounderby, 'that even your own Union, the men who know you best, will have nothing to do with you.

    Hard Times 1868

  • 'You are such a waspish, raspish, ill-conditioned chap, you see,' said Mr. Bounderby, 'that even your own Union, the men who know you best, will have nothing to do with you.

    Hard Times Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1868

  • ‘You are such a waspish, raspish, ill – conditioned chap, you see,’ said Mr. Bounderby, ‘that even your own Union, the men who know you best, will have nothing to do with you.

    Hard Times 2002

  • "It'll do ye good, Passon, that it will!" said Mrs. Frost, in her high acidulated voice, which by dint of constant scolding and screaming after her young family had become almost raspish -- "For you're looking that white about the gills that it upsets my mind to see it.

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • "It'll do ye good, Passon, that it will!" said Mrs. Frost, in her high acidulated voice, which by dint of constant scolding and screaming after her young family had become almost raspish -- "For you're looking that white about the gills that it upsets my mind to see it.

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

  • "It'll do ye good, Passon, that it will!" said Mrs. Frost, in her high acidulated voice, which by dint of constant scolding and screaming after her young family had become almost raspish -- "For you're looking that white about the gills that it upsets my mind to see it.

    God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

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