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The human mind doesn't seem to be able to associate Henry and me with the Ritz without the sense of the eternal fitness of things going wapper-jawed and catawampus.
The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me William Allen White 1906
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Fancy an heir that a father had seen born well-featured and fair, turning suddenly wry-nosed, club-footed, squint-eyed, hair-lipped, wapper-jawed, carrot-haired, from a pride become an aversion, -- my case was yet worse.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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