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  • Mr. James Thistlethwaite grinned evilly, the lampoonist in him stirred.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • A lampoonist, which he had informed her was someone who made obnoxious politicians, prelates and officials look very small and ridiculous through the power of the written word.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • A lampoonist, which he had informed her was someone who made obnoxious politicians, prelates and officials look very small and ridiculous through the power of the written word.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • Mr. James Thistlethwaite grinned evilly, the lampoonist in him stirred.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • My lampoonist friend in London says that everybody sentenced to transportation to Africa will be moved from the county gaols to the hulks in the Thames.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • My lampoonist friend in London says that everybody sentenced to transportation to Africa will be moved from the county gaols to the hulks in the Thames.

    Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

  • This young lampoonist already has the most feared tongue in all Jahilia, but to Abu Simbel he is almost deferential.

    The Satanic Verses Rushdie, Salman 1967

  • Fielding's lost play _The Good-Natured Man > _, which had apparently been submitted to Sir Charles, whose celebrity was great as a brilliant political lampoonist.

    Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

  • Of the friendship with Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, of which we first hear at Eton, little is known, save the curious episode of the recovery, many years after its author's death, of Fielding's lost play The Good-Natured Man, which had apparently been submitted to Sir Charles, whose celebrity was great as a brilliant political lampoonist.

    Henry Fielding A Memoir Godden, G M 1909

  • The castaway would have melted into loving recollections; the imprisoned lampoonist would have busied himself with schemes, ideas, arguments and combinations for getting out, and getting on.

    The Delicious Vice Young Ewing Allison 1892

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