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Such weakness would have been excusable; for. business was --- as one dejected porkman, who kept a shop which refused to reciprocate the compliment by keeping him, informed me ---
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The butcher and the porkman painted up, only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves.
A Tale of Two Cities 1859
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Such weakness would have been excusable; for business was -- as one dejected porkman who kept a shop which refused to reciprocate the compliment by keeping him, informed me -- 'bitter bad.'
The Uncommercial Traveller Charles Dickens 1841
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The butcher and the porkman painted up, only the leanest scrags of meat; the baker, the coarsest of meagre loaves.
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 1841
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