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In my opinion it was just a sockdologer.— Tom Sawyer Abroad
MY opinion and others may think different; but I said it then and I stand to it now -- it was a sockdologer.— Tom Sawyer Abroad
What a sockdologer it would have been to compare myself with the Roman emperors. "— The Art of Disappearing
I see Thomas Jefferson lookin 'out from a cloud and sayin': "Give him another sockdologer; finish him"'And I see millions of men wavin' their hats and singin '"Glory— Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon
Anglo-Saxon Lion, (_Leo Britannicus, _) which it has twice worsted in single combat, and to whose well-knit frame it is prepared at any moment to administer a third sockdologer.— Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 14, July 2, 1870

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