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A wealth of comedy is also represented with clips from Hello Cheeky, Week Ending, The Skivers and Dead Ringers .
Radio: Dr Who on the BBC Zen Tiger 2010
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Idlers and Skivers (Knocking at the Door) (Keith Marsden)
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Many of the door-posts announce "Findings" and "Skivers"; and upon one of them I note the somewhat remarkable intimation of "Pulled Wool."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various
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Skivers, showing stages of manufacture, from Miller's
Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 Gerard Fowke 1894
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One day, Rover and a large dog belonging to Skivers got into a fight about something.
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He was resolute in this, and at last Mr.. Lawson persuaded Mr. Skivers, the tanner, to take him, dog and all.
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Skivers was not long in perceiving that the way to punish Dick the most severely was to abuse his dog; and he, therefore, commenced a systematic process of worrying
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Skivers was a man who, if he had reason to dislike any one about him, could not let his feelings remain quiescent.
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Two or three journeymen, however, who witnessed the whole affair, were on the spot in a moment, and took out the body of Skivers.
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Seizing a long, heavy pole, used for turning and adjusting hides in the vats, he sprang towards Skivers, and giving it a rapid sweep, brought it with tremendous force against his head, knocking him into a vat half-full of a strong infusion of astringent bark, to the bottom of which he instantly sank.
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