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  • All day long we work and slafe, keeping kosher from the trafe.

    With Ann Coulter on the Jewish Conversion Tour Con Chapman 2012

  • Perhaps he missed the occasions Fulkerson used to give him of bursting out against the millionaires; and he could not well go on denouncing as the slafe of gabidal a man who had behaved to him as Fulkerson had done, though

    A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 4 William Dean Howells 1878

  • Perhaps he missed the occasions Fulkerson used to give him of bursting out against the millionaires; and he could not well go on denouncing as the slafe of gabidal a man who had behaved to him as Fulkerson had done, though

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

  • He iss the slafe of some richer man, some gompany, some gorporation, dat crindt him down to the least he can lif on, and that rops him of the marchin of his earnings that he knight pe habby on.

    Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

  • Perhaps he missed the occasions Fulkerson used to give him of bursting out against the millionaires; and he could not well go on denouncing as the slafe of gabidal a man who had behaved to him as Fulkerson had done, though

    A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

  • He iss the slafe of some richer man, some gompany, some gorporation, dat crindt him down to the least he can lif on, and that rops him of the marchin of his earnings that he knight pe habby on.

    A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 4 William Dean Howells 1878

  • He iss the slafe of some richer man, some gompany, some gorporation, dat crindt him down to the least he can lif on, and that rops him of the marchin of his earnings that he knight pe habby on.

    A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

  • He is one slafe to de bootifool eyesbrow, of de yong lady, in you ouse, Mees Mary Callam.

    Paris Lions and London Tigers 1825

  • "Arrangez-moi cette affaire et je suis votre faithful slave à tout jamais (slafe – comme mon village headman écrit des reports: f instead of t).

    'War and Peace' 2007

  • “Arrange that affair for me and I shall always be your most devoted slave — slafe wigh an f, as a village elder of mine writes in his reports.

    War and Peace 2003

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