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  • I walk along humming a bar of villainous music, the "skeeter scale" that the orchestra used to turn turn turn taaaa-tum in the old Alhambra as the two dockwallopers and the leering Chinaman were climbing in through little

    A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929

  • Steamboat masters up at Duluth knew it, and mates and deck hands and stevedores and dockwallopers -- more than one steamer scraped her paint in the haste to get under the long spouts that waited to pour out grain by the hundred thousand bushels.

    Calumet "K" Henry Kitchell Webster 1903

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