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  • Emhe, Issossianusheen and sometypes Yggely ogs Weib.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Wo-olves run, And do-ogs run, And the hunters wait To kill the wolves. 0h Lo-ord, pardon me!

    Through Russia 2003

  • As ain't fit for 'ogs, but is kep' for them Sweaters 'pale wictims -- pore soles?

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 5, 1891 Various

  • A tosheroon [half a crown] for the coat, two ’ogs for the trousers, one and a tanner for the boots, and a ’og for the cap and scarf.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

  • I’ll give yer one and a tanner for the coat, a ’og for the trousers, and two ’ogs for the rest.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

  • C.ogs in rows under shelves R.C. Black cane furniture and rush - bottomed.

    Hobson's Choice Harold Brighouse 1920

  • "Fat as a 'og -- fat as forty bloomin' 'ogs!" cried the old man vindictively.

    The Definite Object A Romance of New York Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Teunis to last 'em for one meal, if they ain't 'ogs.

    Cape Cod Stories Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • "F.ogs," 860, {etiomos eum egoge, kouk anaduomai, daknein}: "I'm up to it; I am resolved" (F.ere); Dem. "de F. Leg."

    The Symposium 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

  • On the morning of the first day of the next month, the landlady does not present her bill, according to promise -- a piece of neglect for which the comfortable head of the house ending in ogs would no doubt have chided her severely, could he have been prevailed upon to remain in town a day or two for that purpose.

    The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 Edgar Allan Poe 1829

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