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‘Suc – cess to the mayor!’ cried the voice, ‘and may he never desert the nail and sarspan business, as he got his money by.’
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Well, we two know these transfigured persons, these college passmen, these well groomed monocular Algys and Bobbies, these cricketers to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom, these plutocratic products of the nail and sarspan business as he got his money by.
Epistle Dedicatory 1903
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Well, we two know these transfigured persons, these college passmen, these well groomed monocular Algys and Bobbies, these cricketers to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom, these plutocratic products of "the nail and sarspan business as he got his money by."
Man and Superman George Bernard Shaw 1903
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'Suc-cess to the mayor!' cried the voice, 'and may he never desert the nail and sarspan business, as he got his money by.'
The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1841
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'Suc-cess to the mayor!' cried the voice, 'and may he never desert the nail and sarspan business, as he got his money by.'
The Pickwick papers 1836
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