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Since then lazy journo's just parrot such Number 10 lines as: "Major new crack down on immigration" whilst dreaming of the day that some spad in a mack will whisper information to them in an underground car park near Hyde Park.— Iain Dale's Diary
Last and chief, while literature, gagged with linsey-woolsey, can only deal with a fraction of the life of man, talk goes fancy free[4] and may call a spade a spade.— Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson
Then suddenly Buck shot off on the side towards Blaine the following words in the code familiar to all Allied spad-pilots Get back!— Our Pilots in the Air
The "spad" had not stopped a second in that attack, and he might not in this; the next thing he knew the knife might be between his ribs Drawed a knife, hev ye!"— Tides of Barnegat
"Drawed a knife, jes' like a spad that ye are!— Tides of Barnegat
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