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  • You were a nicelooking Miriam when you clipped off your backgate hairs and lay swooning in the thing across the bed as Mrs Dandrade about to be violated by lieutenant Smythe-Smythe, Mr Philip

    Ulysses 2003

  • Up, and John, a hackney coachman whom of late I have much used, as being formerly Sir W. Pen's coachman, coming to me by my direction to see whether I would use him to-day or no, I took him to our backgate to look upon the ground which is to be let there, where I have

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668

  • Up, and John, a hackney coachman whom of late I have much used, as being formerly Sir W. Pen's coachman, coming to me by my direction to see whether I would use him to-day or no, I took him to our backgate to look upon the ground which is to be let there, where I have

    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668

  • a nicelooking M.riam when you clipped off your backgate hairs and lay swooning in the thing across the bed as M.s Dandrade about to be violated by lieutenant Smythe-Smythe, M. Philip Augustus Blockwell M. P., signor Laci Daremo, the robust tenor, blueeyed Bert, the liftboy,

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • I have taken care also that before the private backgate of the palace two coaches stand ready, the drivers of which know very well the street that leads to the Tower! "

    Henry VIII and His Court Henry Niles Pierce 1843

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