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  • But if they know the end is coming -- if, say, they have around 20 days to pack their bags, delete their emails, and trade in their roachy exoskeletons for Men's Wearhouse suits -- what might they be doing instead of the jobs they never really performed anyhow?

    They Lie, Oh They Lie 2008

  • But if they know the end is coming -- if, say, they have around 20 days to pack their bags, delete their emails, and trade in their roachy exoskeletons for Men's Wearhouse suits -- what might they be doing instead of the jobs they never really performed anyhow?

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • She could move out of her roachy efficiency and into a real one-bedroom flat, still in her working-class neighborhood where lots of dykes lived.

    GINNY BATES, THE BEGINNING Maggie Jochild 2007

  • Maybe he was totally gangster in his Chinese prison, lifting weights, doing crunches on a roachy dungeon floor.

    Stacy Parker Aab: Deep Thoughts on 24 2008

  • They went into a hole-in-the-wall place, a lot of cracked plaster and roachy baseboards and a stock of rare recordings.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • They went into a hole-in-the-wall place, a lot of cracked plaster and roachy baseboards and a stock of rare recordings.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • They went into a hole-in-the-wall place, a lot of cracked plaster and roachy baseboards and a stock of rare recordings.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • It sounds fine, but you are right that romantic things really happen in roachy kitchens and back yards.

    A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

  • It sounds fine, but you are right that romantic things really happen in roachy kitchens and back yards.

    A Life in Letters F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1994

  • “Okay,” Tobin said, balling the roachy tissue in his fist.

    Sins of Two Fathers Denis Hamill 2003

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