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  • The whole speech is manifestly designed to draw the audience in, swing them through the sales-spitch swirl of story and verse, and send them flying out into the play itself.

    More on Prologues Hal Duncan 2009

  • The whole speech is manifestly designed to draw the audience in, swing them through the sales-spitch swirl of story and verse, and send them flying out into the play itself.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Hal Duncan 2009

  • My lord (whose powers of slack-jaw was notoarious) nex addrast another spitch to Miss

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

  • Which is to all practising massoeurses from a preaching freer and be a gentleman without a duster before a parlourmade with-out a spitch.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Look at the neat grammaticle twist of Lady Arundel's spitch too, who in the cors of three lines has made her son a prince,

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873 Various

  • European packet with its handbells and Saratoga water and breakfast of spitch-cock is inimitable.

    Linda Condon Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • "If they should ketch me and set me in the pillory, Van Dorn, for what you do to-night, hya! spitch!"

    The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877

  • "Hya! spitch!" nervously muttered Clark, cutting his own top-boots with

    The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877

  • Arundel's spitch, too, who, in the corse of three lines, has made her son a prince, a lion, with a sword and coronal, and a star.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • By the time these two spitches had been made -- my spitch and his -- we arrived at the "Hotel Mirabeu;" which, us every body knows, ain't very distant from the Plas Vandome.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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