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  • Poar fool! he was in a net — sich a net as I never yet see set to ketch a roag in.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

  • “Dere is som greater roag dan me, — mosh greater.”

    The Fatal Boots 2006

  • A raskle such as he — a swindler, who had robbed poar Dawkins of the means of igsistance; who had cheated his fellow-roag, Mr. Richard Blewitt, and who was making a musnary marridge with a disgusting creacher like Miss Griffin, didn merit any compashn on my purt; and I determined quite to keep secret the suckmstansies of my privit intervew with his exlnsy my presnt master.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

  • The fact is, my master was doing his very best to act the respectable man: and a very good game it is, too; but it requires a precious great roag to play it.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

  • Now, my lord, roag as he was, was much too good-natured to do an unkind ackshn, mearly for the sake of doing it.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

  • Now, my lord, roag as he was, was much too good-natured to do an unkind ackshn, mearly for the sake of doing it.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • And this I've perseaved in the cors of my expearants through life, that when you vex him, a roag's no longer a roag: you find him out at onst when he's in a passion, for he shows, as it ware, his cloven foot the very instnt you tread on it.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • The fact is, my master was doing his very best to act the respectable man: and a very good game it is, too; but it requires a precious great roag to play it.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • "Dere is som greater roag dan me, -- mosh greater."

    The Fatal Boots William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • And the young roag fell asleep, thinking what sort of a one he'd buy.

    Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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