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Nowadays, as he had learned, on the third Sunday of certain months the so-called Bainbridge Society, a loose collection of scalawags who formed a social circle headed by the Earl of Bainbridge—ranging from the lowest of the low amongst the aristocracy, to certain wealthy Cits, to shadier figures whose identities were never revealed—purchased doxies here.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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Nowadays, as he had learned, on the third Sunday of certain months the so-called Bainbridge Society, a loose collection of scalawags who formed a social circle headed by the Earl of Bainbridge—ranging from the lowest of the low amongst the aristocracy, to certain wealthy Cits, to shadier figures whose identities were never revealed—purchased doxies here.
Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010
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Sálihlyah quarter or suburb of Damascus famous for its cemetery of holy men, but the facetious Cits change the name to
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But don't you think there's also a case for World Senior Cits' Day?
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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Great that you point your readers to Cits and Insights, but perhaps an idea to update the part on RLG.
Introducing Walt Crawford's "Cites & Insights" Lesley Perkins 2005
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And to that intent, I'll absolutely break all commerce with those little Cits by whose alliance I am debased.
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Some snivling Cits, wou'd have a Peace for spight,
The Busie Body Susanna Centlivre
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Since dull chain'd Cits invade our darling Pleasures.
The City Bride (1696) Or The Merry Cuckold Joseph Harris
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The Cits held office only a couple of years and, knowin 'that they would never be in again, each Cit officeholder held on for dear life to every dollar that came his way.
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon George Washington Plunkitt 1883
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That dog knew as much as some Cits and he acted just like them about the glorious day.
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon George Washington Plunkitt 1883
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