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Drake was another highwayman, 'Mat of the Mint', that Tracey Miles played the jailor, 'Lockit' -- "
Murder at Bridge Anne Austin
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Hmm iz it like “Lucee Lockit lawst her pokkit” gaem?
FASHION POLICE - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Peachum and Lockit, you know, are infamous Scoundrels.
The Beggar's Opera 2007
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Lockit ', the jailor's daughter, and Karen Marshall the other feminine lead,' Polly Peachum ', you know.
Murder at Bridge Anne Austin
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Hippisley with his rich, unctuous humour was Peachum, and not less well suited to Lockit was Jack Hall's quaint face and naive manner.
Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Charles Edward Pearce
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True, the dialects of his Peachum and his Lockit are in some sort one; his gentlemen of the road and his ladies of the kennel rejoice in a common flippancy of expression; there is little to choose between the speech of Polly and the speech of Lucy.
Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation William Ernest Henley 1876
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Lockit does not think and feel like Miss Diver; Macheath is distinguishable from Peachum; none is exactly alive, but of stage life ail have their share.
Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation William Ernest Henley 1876
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Thief-catcher and Tyburn purveyor, and sped him to Newgate, where he borrowed a set of double-irons from the Peachum or Lockit, or whatever the fellow's name it was that kept that Den of Thieves.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 2 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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"Both! certainly," replied Randal, just in the tone which Peachum might have used in courting the confidence of Lockit.
My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"Both! certainly," replied Randal, just in the tone which Peachum might have used in courting the confidence of Lockit.
My Novel — Volume 09 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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