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It turned out that Ross was the only one who could see the "Croker's mountains".
Royal Society publishes tales of oil on troubled waters and the first roll-ups 2011
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I just biked straight to Croker's Corner and waited for you.
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They came to Croker's Corner sooner than they thought.
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'He did get to Croker's Corner so very quickly, didn't he?
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Croker's Acres . . . one evening on the way home . . . home!
Archive 2008-11-01 Lemon Hound 2008
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Wolfe's instrument for Croker's conversion is the stoic Epictetus.
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Croker's vehemence back-fired however, since he helped to sell Owenson's books by increasing her notoriety.
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Croker's Acres . . . one evening on the way home . . . home!
Samuel Beckett Lemon Hound 2008
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And when he comes to the "want of perspicacity" revealed in Croker's notes, Macaulay outdoes himself.
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I still read Macaulay's assault on Croker's edition of Boswell's life of Johnson every once in a while just to savor his magisterial disparagement of a work he judged "ill-compiled, ill-arranged, ill-expressed, and ill-printed" — a variant on the leg of mutton Dr. Johnson once pronounced "as bad as bad could be; ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-dressed."
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