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My scram blue-vinnied gallicrow of an uncle takes care that there shan't be much comfort in the house, but you can curl up on the furniture if beds run short.
The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884
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'twould be a thousand pities to let such good things get blue-vinnied for want of a ceremony to use 'em upon, and at last they have thought of this. '
The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884
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