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The following is Catnach's tail-piece to Fauntleroy's last dying speech and confession:—Come all you handsome London gents together, man and boy
James Catnach, Ballad-monger, Part 2 Steve 2009
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Finally, the picture-gallery opens with a series of weird and striking adventures and shows as a tail-piece, an idyllic scene of love and wedlock in halls before reeking with lust and blood.
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It may be bad taste, but sometimes we should prefer a few sentences of plain prose narration, and a little Bewick by way of tail-piece.
Lay Morals 2005
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Nests under the surveillance of human beings are simpler exteriorly than those of the bush, no trouble being taken to adjust them in appearance to their surroundings; and not a single local instance can be cited of an attempt to blur such nests other than by a trivial tail-piece.
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"You can cut into The Naked Lunch at any intersection point," says Burroughs, suiting the action to the word, in "an atrophied preface" he appends as a tail-piece.
Déjeuner sur l'Herbe McCarthy, Mary 1963
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I claim applying a winch to the tail-piece of a violin, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and described.
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So interested was she in these wondrous pages, executed with such precision and perfection, with marginal adornment, and many a graceful turn and fancy in initial letter and tail-piece, she seemed to him for the moment rather some simple lowly maiden than a proud princess of the realm.
Under the Rose Frederic Stewart Isham
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A. the end of the index to Vol.LIII. is a little tail-piece that marks the advent of Mr.A. Chasemore.
The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann
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The cut next to the tail-piece is the best to boil.
The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette
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To this is added an ornamental tail-piece called Death's Arms. It shows
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various
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