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Page 76: 'opprobious' corrected to 'opprobrious'. (in terms opprobrious they mouth).
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Mr Pecksniff called him opprobious names for the suggestion.
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McCrimmon, writhing under the double insult of the opprobious epithet 'English' and the disrepute into which the word of a McCrimmon had clearly fallen among the savage tribes of the East, groped for the handle of his Stilson.
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Remember that opprobious past -- that situation the women of our country had to endure?
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He had the repute of a sober, sedate, honest, quiet, peaceable man, and a very good husband, the only objection his friends would admit of against him was that he was of too parsimonious and frugal temper, and that he was rather too indulgent of his wife, who repaid his kindness with ill usage, and frequently very opprobious language.
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The poor Queen herself they called by names so opprobious that decency will not suffer me to repeat them.
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On being refused he made a reply which drew from the keeper some opprobious epithets, accompanied by a thrust from his sword, which penetrated the shoulder of his victim, and caused the blood to flow freely.
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The poor Queen herself they called by names so opprobious that decency will not suffer me to repeat them.
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The unfeeling wretch immediately executed this project; and, seizing the young woman by the wrist, he held the lighted candle under her hand, burning it crosswise on the back, till the tendons divided from the flesh, during which he loaded her with many opprobious epithets.
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Burnworth had scarce made an end of his bloody proposal, before they all testified their assent to it with great alacrity, Higgs only excepted; who seeming to disapprove thereof, it put the rest into such a passion that they upbraided him in the most opprobious terms with being a coward and a scoundrel, unworthy of being any longer the companion of such brave fellows as themselves.
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