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  • 'Cumberback', -- a thing unheard of before, -- was compelled to depute another to perform this part of his duty.

    The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838 James Gillman

  • Cumberback (a name in which he said his horse would have concurred), it seems strange that, in such stirring times, his regiment should not have been ordered off on foreign service.

    Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hall Caine 1892

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  • refers to how movie posters only show Benedict Cumberbatch's back.

    April 14, 2016