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  •   The grizzled carney who takes tickets on the Tilt-a-Whirl is a ditch-digger compared to the lawyerly status occupied by a barker who can coax people into a tent to look at Lizard Boy, the bearded fat lady, Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy, the bored hermaphrodite.

    The Carnival Barker: Recalling a Dying Art 2010

  • When a boy's first romantic interlude is with Phoebe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life.

    A Tale of Acceptance Stephanie 2008

  • No more sharing a dime museum stage with the Marvelous Little Askenas Triplets or The Dog-Faced Boy.

    The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006

  • Say that there's a photo of you on your denominational web site that makes you look like Jo Jo the Dog-Faced Minister.

    Controlling Your Image PeaceBang 2006

  • No more sharing a dime museum stage with the Marvelous Little Askenas Triplets or The Dog-Faced Boy.

    The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006

  • Obviously, he's not going to be able to go into the detail in 263 pages that I might wish, but he reaches areas of the lore e.g., St. Christopher's cynocephalia, Charlemagne's luporii, and Jo-Jo the Dog-Faced Boy that much larger compendia -- such as the remarkably thin broth of Brad Steiger's The Werewolf Book -- omit.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006

  • But sidewinder, I think I can safely say that that was my Dog-Faced Boy.

    Fingers Crossed... sidewinder 2003

  • Fire-Eaters and Fanatics, Demons and Dog-Faced Men, Invaders and Conspirators and Spies-the only invaders that ever come to this island are fish stupid enough to get stranded by the tide or seagulls who have lost their sense of direction and flown away from everything and into nothing.

    Time Streams King, J. Robert 1999

  • Likewise, from their own seed syllables, then hand-insignia, come a Shvanasya, a Dog-Faced Lady, and so on, embraced by half-human half-serpents.

    Abbreviated Kalachakra Body, Speech, and Mind Sadhana Pan-chen dPal-ldan ye-shes 1985

  • Likewise, from their own seed syllables, then hand-insignia, come a Shvanasya, a Dog-Faced Lady, and so on, embraced by half-human half-serpents.

    Abbreviated Kalachakra Body, Speech, and Mind Sadhana Pan-chen dPal-ldan ye-shes 1985

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