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In pathetic obedience, “the young man pulled off his shirt and put one hand in the tarbox and applied it to his shoulder,” while the rest of the committee, wrote an eyewitness, “sneaked off apparently ashamed of the business and themselves.”
Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997
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In pathetic obedience, “the young man pulled off his shirt and put one hand in the tarbox and applied it to his shoulder,” while the rest of the committee, wrote an eyewitness, “sneaked off apparently ashamed of the business and themselves.”
Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997
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They that do good service in the commonweal are gentlemen, but such as rub horses do good service in the commonweal, _ergo_, tarbox, master courtier, a horse-keeper is a gentleman.
History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873
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