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Which was a beautifully mild preachee to take the place of floggee.
Dr. Jolliffe's Boys Lewis Hough
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I began, indeed, to utter a few appropriate sentiments, but the poor Boshman exclaimed, 'You floggee, floggee, Missy, or preachee, preachee, but no _both_ floggee and preachee --' in a tone that would have disarmed a Bampton lecturer.
He Andrew Lang 1878
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[They must; which justifies the Budget of Paradoxes: but no occasion to send them anywhere; no preachee and floggee too, as the negro said].
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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Like Mungo's tormentor, both "preachee and floggee."
The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815
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The more I think about it the more plainly I see that, if we are to make any useful fight against drink, we must drop the preachee-preachee; we must drop loud execrations of the people whose existence the State fosters; we must get hold of men who _know_ what drinking means, and let them come heart to heart with the victims who are blindly tramping on to ruin for want of a guide and friend.
The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour James Runciman 1871
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