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Fust, I'm cast hoff by my hungrateful parents, and left to seek my living, and artervords I'm made a fool of, and gets transported, and now the very coves vot I thought friends, turns agin me.
The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia William Henry Thomes 1859
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Beck, be n't you be a hungrateful beast to go for to think of nothin 'but the tin, ven your
Lucretia — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Beck, be n't you be a hungrateful beast to go for to think of nothin 'but the tin, ven your
Lucretia — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"'Take off your coat, you imperent, hungrateful scoundrl,' says I."'It's not your livery,' says he.
Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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“‘Take off your coat, you imperent, hungrateful scoundrl,’ says I. “‘It’s not your livery,’ says he.
Burlesques 2006
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“‘Take off your coat, you imperent, hungrateful scoundrl,’ says I. “‘It’s not your livery,’ says he.
The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006
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"'An hungrateful fool, marry an' turn me hoff; ugh, ugh! fix 'im, hany
Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall
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