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There were chorus-girl guards turning a few kicks -- wearing black-leg, white-leg tights for some unusually visual photo-play for those days.
Archive 2005-07-03 Michael Evans 2005
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There were chorus-girl guards turning a few kicks -- wearing black-leg, white-leg tights for some unusually visual photo-play for those days.
Archive 2005-07-01 Michael Evans 2005
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There were chorus-girl guards turning a few kicks -- wearing black-leg, white-leg tights for some unusually visual photo-play for those days.
View from the Northern Border Michael Evans 2005
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There were chorus-girl guards turning a few kicks -- wearing black-leg, white-leg tights for some unusually visual photo-play for those days.
06/26/2005 - 07/03/2005 Michael Evans 2005
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I can break it, I can turn black-leg and go to work for the Chinese.
Two in Time Anderson, Poul 1970
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If they are kept regularly growing on, black-leg will be prevented.
Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie
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After the first winter, black-leg is little to be feared.
Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie
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Prevention is the only safeguard, for I have never seen black-leg cured.
Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie
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"Were it not for the fact that your name has been publicly associated with hers, I would prosecute you for the scoundrel and black-leg that you are."
At the Time Appointed J. N. [Illustrator] Marchand
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The blade of Vernon was arrested in its deadly descent, and a single blow from the fist of the new-comer laid the black-leg prostrate by the side of the woodman.
Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Warren T. Ashton
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