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  • As it happens, a large percentage of white males in Brooklyn today are rocking similar mutton-chops.

    Matthew Yglesias » Commerce Cabinet Crisis I 2009

  • Mullets and recycled 70s fashions including mutton-chops and porn-star 'staches I cannot tolerate.

    Old Time Wreck 'n Roll 2009

  • In "X-Men Origins: Wolverine," the fourth installment in Fox's Marvel Comics-based franchise, Liev Schreiber packed on pounds of muscle and some serious mutton-chops to play Victor Creed, aka Sabretooth, the nemesis (and brother) of Hugh Jackman's titular mutant.

    From Classics to Comics 2009

  • Five had beards, four mustaches, one had large mutton-chops, at least two were bald and more than half wore bow-tie.

    Forty Plus Grumpy Old Men and My Son 2008

  • I expected Frank to tell me that the Founding Fathers held contentious debates over this particular sentence, that Ben Franklin and Charles Pinckney had to be repeatedly separated, that Roger Sherman and James Madison pulled on each other's mutton-chops for days on end, and that everyone made fun of Gouveneur Morris's name.

    American Beat: Hyphenated In The U.S.A. 2007

  • A man, descended like Costigan, from a long line of Hibernian kings, chieftains, and other magnates and sheriffs of the county, had of course too much dignity and self-respect to walk arrum-inarrum (as the Captain phrased it) with a lady who occasionally swept his room out, and cooked his mutton-chops.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • And so saying, Mr. Warrington wiped a gridiron with a piece of paper, put it on the fire, and on it two mutton-chops, and took from the cupboard a couple of plates and some knives and silver forks, and castors.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • The three mutton-chops consumed by him were best of the mutton kind; the potatoes were perfect of their order; as for the rolypoly, it was too good.

    The Book of Snobs 2006

  • We shall have the tea at its third water, and those two damp black mutton-chops, which nobody else will take, will fall to our cold share.

    The Kickleburys on the Rhine 2006

  • Alas! the door, surmounted by the name of Podmore, was opened to her by poor Cos in his shirt-sleeves, and prepared with the gridiron to receive the mutton-chops which Mrs. Bolton had gone to purchase.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

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