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  • Lapin Agil ', come with me into that _auberge_ of the Avenue Trudaine where are banned catch-coin stratagems, fleshly pyrotechnics, that little refuge whose wall gives forth the tableau of Salis, he of the

    Europe After 8:15 George Jean Nathan 1920

  • Evidently, at one period, the Jasper B. had played a part in some catch-coin scheme of summer entertainment; a scheme that had failed.

    The Cruise of the Jasper B. Don Marquis 1907

  • Examine well, said he, the countenance of these stout props and pillars of this catch-coin law and iniquity; and pray observe, that if you still live but six olympiads, and the age of two dogs more, you'll see these Furred

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

  • Examine well, said he, the countenance of these stout props and pillars of this catch-coin law and iniquity; and pray observe, that if you still live but six olympiads, and the age of two dogs more, you’ll see these Furred Law-cats lords of all

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Examine well, said he, the countenance of these stout props and pillars of this catch-coin law and iniquity; and pray observe, that if you still live but six olympiads, and the age of two dogs more, you’ll see these Furred Law-cats lords of all

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

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