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  • A sweaty and disheveled spigotty policeman had brought her, and she had fought him all the way to such effect that he stood near the entrance to the cells too exhausted to move her a step further.

    Lawgivers 1914

  • A thin-face widow, in a blight of black, pays the fine of her roistering eldest born, who, while crazed with several centavos 'worth of ninety-proof aguardiente, demolished a window and portions of the anatomy of a spigotty policeman.

    Lawgivers 1914

  • Captain Callahan, a blond Celt in American uniform, taking oath, affirms that he did see the lady arrive, dead drunk, in a handcart propelled by the aforesaid spigotty policeman.

    Lawgivers 1914

  • The very spigotty police, known, some of them, to have engaged in sniping our men, have been put back to work under our army administration.

    Lawgivers 1914

  • Between these guards, small people, furtive or sullen, came and went — if witnesses, summoned from without by an alert little spigotty bailiff; if prisoners, escorted by armed soldiers.

    Lawgivers 1914

  • The arresting spigotty officer, being duly sworn, deposes that she was so drunk that he was compelled to transport her to the lockup in a handcart.

    Lawgivers 1914

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