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Now unless Mitt Romney was showing off his brand-new Rolls-Royce Springfield Silver Ghost Oxford Tourer to a bunch of Janes and suggested that he take them in his hayburner down to gem of a juice joint in Atlantic City, we don't know if "high-falutin'" and "haughty" are the period-appropriate words.
HUFFPOST HILL - White House Says We're Not At War, Just Sending Armed People To Places Eliot Nelson 2011
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Now unless Mitt Romney was showing off his brand-new Rolls-Royce Springfield Silver Ghost Oxford Tourer to a bunch of Janes and suggested that he take them in his hayburner down to gem of a juice joint in Atlantic City, we don't know if "high-falutin'" and "haughty" are the period-appropriate words.
HUFFPOST HILL - White House Says We're Not At War, Just Sending Armed People To Places Eliot Nelson 2011
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Could you do what you need to on the back of a hayburner?
knitandpurl commented on the word hayburner
"Some people are lucky, she heard him say. Joel, he's lucky. Got a good business. His hayburners win. See, I got me ole man's blood. Dead unlucky."
Cloudstreet by Tim Winton, p 20 of the Graywolf Press hardcover edition
March 27, 2010