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  • She was my grand-daughter, and what's bred in the bone ... oh, but she'd hocussed me properly, playing shrinking Purity, and I'd been ready to shell out half my fortune - and I'd come within an ace of committing murder for her.

    Watershed 2010

  • When Ghanim saw her, he knew that some one had played her false and hocussed her; so he pulled her out of the chest and laid her on the ground with her face upwards.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Princess took the keys from the Wazir whom she had hocussed.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Mr. Frederick Pigeon avers that it was at her house at Lausanne that he was hocussed at supper and lost eight hundred pounds to

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • Besides which, I think the wine of them two Governors was — I will not say a hocussed wine, but fur from a wine as was elthy for the mind.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • She was my grand-daughter, and what's bred in the bone ... oh, but she'd hocussed me properly, playing shrinking Purity, and I'd been ready to shell out half my fortune - and I'd come within an ace of committing murder for her.

    Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

  • In other words, if that bitch Carpenter hadn't hocussed me up the Pearl with her lies, I'd have been safe and away.

    Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • In other words, if that bitch Carpenter hadn't hocussed me up the Pearl with her lies, I'd have been safe and away.

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • In other words, if that bitch Carpenter hadn't hocussed me up the Pearl with her lies, I'd have been safe and away.

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • Jehadieh and hocussed Arabs of the spacious and cruel Soudan!

    Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Bennet Burleigh

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