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  • I admire you for not accepting a thirdrate job in a second-rate firm.

    My Sweet Audrina V.C. Andrews® 2010

  • I admire you for not accepting a thirdrate job in a second-rate firm.

    My Sweet Audrina V.C. Andrews® 2010

  • I admire you for not accepting a thirdrate job in a second-rate firm.

    My Sweet Audrina V.C. Andrews® 2010

  • I admire you for not accepting a thirdrate job in a second-rate firm.

    My Sweet Audrina V.C. Andrews® 2010

  • Hay considered George a thirdrate Sargent and an imbecile to boot, but he seized the moment to write a generous check in order to relieve King of one dependent.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • Hay considered George a thirdrate Sargent and an imbecile to boot, but he seized the moment to write a generous check in order to relieve King of one dependent.

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • He pointed to a dusty TV mounted on the wall in the fashion one might expect to see in a thirdrate hotel.

    Cinderella At The Ball Wells, Robin 1999

  • At that time he became acting captain of the Swiftsure, a new thirdrate seventy-four, and at Nelson's express wish was given permanent command in July.

    Journal of a Lady of Quality; Being the Narrative of a Journey from Scotland to the West Indies, North Carolina, and Portugal, in the Years 1774 to 1776 1920

  • [388] Whoever reads this piece, and is not aware that Blount was one of the most unscrupulous plagiaries that ever lived, will be surprised to find, mingled with the poor thoughts and poor words of a thirdrate pamphleteer, passages so elevated in sentiment and style that they would be worthy of the greatest name in letters.

    The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

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