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Look, you're worn out, and you don't have a pokeful of money, and I can do better by you than the agency.
The Game Of Empire Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1985
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Hall Haddo, 'says he, sub voce Peden,' or Hell Haddo, as he was more justly to be called, a pokeful of old condemned errors and the filthy vile lusts of the flesh, a published whore-monger, a common gross drunkard, continually and godlessly scraping and skirling on
Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Peden, ‘or Hell Haddo, as he was more justly to be called, a pokeful of old condemned errors and the filthy vile lusts of the flesh, a published whore-monger, a common gross drunkard, continually and godlessly scraping and skirling on a fiddle, continually breathing flames against the remnant of Israel.
Lay Morals 2005
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