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Examples

  • I hope people wake up to smell the rosses on this guy!!

    White House Spellcheck FAIL. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

  • "It's easy for the Dun-rosses of the world," he said.

    Noble House Clavell, James 1981

  • "It's easy for the Dun-rosses of the world," he said.

    Noble House Clavell, James 1981

  • Ces blagueurs d'Italiens ont ete rosses par mer, comme ils avaient ete rosses par terre. '

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Ces blagueurs d'Italiens ont ete rosses par mer, comme ils avaient ete rosses par terre. '

    Miscellaneous Prose George Meredith 1868

  • Ces blagueurs d'Italiens ont ete rosses par mer, comme ils avaient ete rosses par terre. '

    Complete Short Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Hillary Clinton appears to believe in the weight of the "experts" -- the rosses and the indyks, the haasses and the millers, and tutti quanti -- and she also assumes that there is a

    Jihad Watch 2009

  • If one night the end of the journey was the _Tréteau de Tabarin_ -- the hot and uncomfortable little room rigged up as a theatre, with hard rough wooden benches for the audience, and vague lights, and bare and dingy stage where men and women whose names I have forgotten read and recited and sang the _chansons rosses_ that "all Paris" flocked there to hear -- it was to have the argument from which we had freshly come continued and settled by one of the inspired young poets.

    Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties Elizabeth Robins Pennell 1895

  • And then she should recognize that all these rosses and indyks, not to mention the djerijians and bakers and all the rest of the "Middle East experts" -- who somehow never include such people as J. B. Kelly, or Bat Ye'or, or any of those who do not quite fit the State Department template of those who "understand the Middle East" --- have never studied, nor understood, nor applied to the situation at hand, Islam.

    Jihad Watch 2009

  • "We're a profit-making institution, not a charity, and the Dun-rosses and Struans have had too much say in our affairs for too many years.

    Noble House Clavell, James 1981

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