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  • Except the new Federal Fandango is not about huckling the buck, but passing it. '

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Passing the Buck 2005

  • Except the new Federal Fandango is not about huckling the buck, but passing it.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Passing the Buck 2005

  • There was an eager huckling for bargains, or a stolid calculation of values, or a loud commendation of wares, or an oppressive indifference.

    The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller

  • O, merry hae I been teethin 'a heckle, [huckling-comb]

    Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

  • My lords, if you should thus cast your bread upon the waters, after many days you shall find it; stand not huckling when you are offered corn and your money again in the mouth of the sack.

    The Commonwealth of Oceana James Harrington 1644

  • I am ashamed to stand huckling upon this point; it is sordid.

    The Commonwealth of Oceana James Harrington 1644

  • In the humanity of my heart I sent out heyweywomen to refresh the ballwearied and then, doubling megalopolitan poleetness, my great great greatest of these charities, devaleurised the base fellows for the curtailment of their lower man: with a slog to square leg I sent my boundary to Botany Bay and I ran up a score and four of mes while the Yanks were huckling the Em-pire: I have been reciping om omominous letters and widely — signed petitions full of pieces of pottery about my monumental — ness as a thingabolls and I have been inchanting causeries to the feshest cheoilboys so that they are allcalling on me for the song of a birtch: the more secretely bi built, the more openly palas-tered.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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