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When I stood, her serious gray eyes beneath the wide smooth brow were level with the knot in my fourinhand.
Triple Jeopardy Stout, Rex, 1886-1975 1951
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When I stood, her serious gray eyes beneath the wide smooth brow were level with the knot in my fourinhand.
Triple Jeopardy Stout, Rex, 1886-1975 1951
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When the youngdammers will be soon heartpocking on their betters’ doornoggers: and the youngfries will be backfrisking diamondcuts over their lyingin underlayers, spick and spat trowelling a gravetrench for their fourinhand forebears.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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The first Humphrey’s latitu-dinous baver with puggaree behind, (calaboose belong bigboss belong Kang the Toll) his fourinhand bow, his elbaroom surtout, the refaced unmansionables of gingerine hue, the state slate umbrella, his gruff woolselywellesly with the finndrinn knopfs and the gauntlet upon the hand which in an hour not for him solely evil had struck down the might he mighthavebeen d’Est-erre of whom his nation seemed almost already to be about to have need.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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