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  • And how the crowd loved her, cheering her on, and her hawker sisters called ribaldly after.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • And how the crowd loved her, cheering her on, and her hawker sisters called ribaldly after.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • Episcopalian flock -- and Mrs. Conklin told the women that altogether he was a credit to his sex and his family -- a remark which has passed about ribaldly in town for a dozen years, though Mortimer Conklin never knew that he was the subject of a town joke.

    Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Various

  • "Red, black and yellow -- the Zingari colours," I said ribaldly, and

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920 Various 1898

  • He shaved every day, wore a frock-coat and a high hat to church -- where for ten years he was the only male member of the Episcopalian flock -- and Mrs. Conklin told the women that altogether he was a credit to his sex and his family -- a remark which was passed about ribaldly in town for a dozen years, though Mortimer Conklin never knew that he was the subject of a town joke.

    In Our Town William Allen White 1906

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