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Illinois politics reads like a list of comic book crooks, miscreants likeSecretary of State Paul Powell whose Springfield apartment was found to contain shoe boxes stuffed with money, discovered after he suddenly died in office, or Ryan's cast of henchmen like Rodger (The Hog) Stanley, or the pasty puffball and Caribbean bon viant, Scott Fawell who was persuaded to drop a dime on his former boss to spare his fiancee jail time.
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O Fruture viant/Fruter sawge byñ good/bett {ur} is Frut {ur} powche;
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Blount, ed. 1681, _Garde-viant_, a Wallet for a Soldier to put his
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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C. atcr, thoracc ftriga niedia impreffa, tibiis fpinofifll» niis nigris, Fabr.viant. inf 2.p. 29. 121.
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Don’t eat Leessez.] ++O Frutur {e} viant [102]/Frutur sawge, [102] byñ good/bett {ur} is Frut {ur} powche; [102]
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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