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A onelegged sailor, swinging himself onward by lazy jerks of his crutches, growled some notes.
Ulysses 2003
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The onelegged sailor growled at the area of 14 Nelson street: —
Ulysses 2003
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Living in a magic country, they had no doubt but that the strange onelegged man could do what he said.
The Scarecrow of Oz Baum, L. Frank 1915
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A onelegged sailor, swinging himself onward by lazy jerks of his crutches, growled some notes.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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A onelegged sailor crutched himself round MacConnell's corner, skirting
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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The onelegged sailor growled at the area of 14 Nelson street:
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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A onelegged sailor crutched himself round MacConnell’s corner, skirting Rabaiotti’s icecream car, and jerked himself up Eccles street.
Ulysses 2003
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"TWIXT YOU AND ME The Army of Children which besieged the Postoffice, conquered the Postmen and delivered to me its imperious Commands, insisted that Trot and Cap'n Bill be admitted to the Land of Oz, where Trot could enjoy the society of Dorothy, Betsy Bobbin and Ozma, while the onelegged sailor-man might become a comrade of the Tin Woodman, the Shaggy Man, Tik-Tok and all the other quaint people who inhabit this wonderful fairyland.
The Scarecrow of Oz Baum, L. Frank 1915
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