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Examples
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God did not put the light in Jakey's eyes and he was blind, and his father was not gentle and loving.
The Story of My Life Annie Sullivan 1905
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Living in Columbia, SC we hear a lot about "Jakey" Knotts.
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Every variety and type of countenance -- from the Parisian "Jakey" with villainous eyes, sharp features and black soaplocks, to the jolly old patriarch, gray and stout, and somewhat stiff in the joints, who has been a cab-driver for over forty years perhaps -- presents itself to your view.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 Various
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Lewis battled his way along till he stood in front of a bookmaker with a face cast very much on the lines of a Rubens 'cherub; but the cherub - type ended abruptly with the plump frontispiece of "Jakey" Faust, the bookmaker.
Thoroughbreds William Alexander Fraser 1896
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"Jakey" was the typical fireman; he was the brutal hero of a vulgar play, and the ideal of nineteen youths out of twenty.
Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863
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"Jakey" during the Highlanders and Cryme Tyme match.
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"Jakey" during the Highlanders and Cryme Tyme match.
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"Jakey" during the Highlanders and Cryme Tyme match.
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"Jakey" during the Highlanders and Cryme Tyme match.
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"Jakey" during the Highlanders and Cryme Tyme match.
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