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Instead of-of being an ex-example to your son, it is your-your son, M'Clutchy, that is an example to you, hip, hip, hur --, and so good night to you, I'm -- I'm on for a neat bit of business -- that's all.
Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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None o 'your sort, my buck, will get that trick, so long as loyal M'Clutchy's on the property.'
Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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Deaker's Dashers were by no means of such rancid bigotry as M'Clutchy's men, although they were, heaven knows, much worse than they ought to have been.
Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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You remember the day you passed Darby O'Drive and me, on our way to M'Clutchy's?
Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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He accordingly lost no time in communicating on the subject with Lord Cumber, who at once supported him in the project of raising a body of cavalry for the better security of the public peace; as, indeed, it was his interest to do, inasmuch, as it advanced his own importance in the eye of government quite as much as it did M'Clutchy's.
Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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M'Clutchy's face became the color of lead on perusing his dismissal, which was brief, stern, and peremptory -- or as the phrase goes -- short, sharp, and decisive.
Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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M'Clutchy's heart, or the dark crimes which it festers.
Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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The sessions of Castle Cumber having concluded as sessions usually conclude, we beg our reader to accompany us to Deaker Hall the residence of M'Clutchy's father, the squire.
Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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Harvey, who heard M'Clutchy's determination with deep regret, now happening to look out of the window, observed a group of persons approaching -- one of the said group hard and fast in the grip of two of
Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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"M'Clutchy's givin 'them a lift, for I've ever an' always remarked, that distress, and poverty, and neglect o 'the poor, and hardship, and persecution, an' oppression, and anything that way, was sure to have my very heart broke wid business."
Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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