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Besides, believing the bulk of sports results are a fit-up would have its compensations.

Ijaz Butt's blurtings reveal the beauty of having an inner bookie 2010

Retrofit these machines or return to a safer fit-up fellows.

Archive 2006-03-01 2006

Q How much did you say was included in the fit-up from the base-closing rounds you want?

Press Briefing By Bob Bell ITY National Archives 1999

There was nothing on at the theater; but we saw a fit-up in the Agora, a mumming show in the Italian style.

The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

When we heard who were doing the masks and costumes, painting the skene and training the chorus, and for how much, even the Persian-backed play at Delphi looked like a fit-up.

The Mask of Apollo Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1966

We was bout three miles from here when they fit-up here.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration

The problem (to name but one) of the resulting struggle between plenary inspiration and the conditions of a fit-up tour is only another proof of my contention that there are more things in heaven and earth than can be treated in realistic fiction, and that Mr. SNAITH'S good intentions have unfortunately betrayed him into selecting the least possible.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 14, 1917 Various

Didn't the heavy man of the fit-up show, eighteen months after his conviction for rape (the lapse of time being occupied in paying the penalty), return as an actor to the scene of his delinquency to find himself, not, as he expected, pelted with dead cats and decaying vegetables, but cheered to the echo?

She Stands Accused 1935

There was a resting juvenile, of fit-up calibre, at his boarding-house who could always get

The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories 1928

There, in any ramshackle hall, or fit-up arch-way, or disused stables, the boys and girls, out for fun, may dance the golden hours away throughout Sunday afternoon and evening.

Nights in London Thomas Burke 1915