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Baroski's gloves alone must cost him a little fortune; only he says with a leer, when asked the question, "Get along vid you; don't you know dere is a gloveress that lets me have dem very sheap?"
Men's Wives William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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He's born to be bullied by women: and I remember him henpecked -- let's see, ever since -- ever since the time of that little gloveress at Woodstock, whose picter poor Mrs.M. made such
The Wolves and the Lamb William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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He’s born to be bullied by women: and I remember him henpecked — let’s see, ever since — ever since the time of that little gloveress at Woodstock, whose picter poor Mrs.M. made such a noise about when she found it in the lumber-room.
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Baroski’s gloves alone must cost him a little fortune; only he says with a leer, when asked the question, “Get along vid you; don’t you know dere is a gloveress that lets me have dem very sheap?”
Mens Wives 2006
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