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I have gone around the corner in Petticoat Lane and have bumped into a glorious prototype of dear old Fagin.
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The last number, The Ransomed Petticoat, is a rousing dance song with jiglike rhythm, of the type that was often used to accompany the folk dances in the country.
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And in Middlesex Street, Whitechapel-otherwise known as Petticoat Lane, after the famous market which lined that cobbled thoroughfare-a child was born to Lithuanian immigrant Varina Boleslaus and English dock laborer John Lachley.
Ripping Time Asprin, Robert 2000
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LAMB: Now you made the whole first two years of the Andrew Jackson presidency revolve around what's called the Petticoat Affair here and
The Petticoat Affair: Manners, Mutiny and Sex in Andrew Jackson's White House 1998
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The Petticoat is a kind of Incumbrance upon it, and if the
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The Petticoat is a kind of Incumbrance upon it, and if the _Amazons_ should think fit to go on in this Plunder of our Sex's Ornaments, they ought to add to their Spoils, and compleat their Triumph over us, by wearing the Breeches.
The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays Joseph Addison 1695
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"Petticoat" just can't be touched, partly because the sexual politics have changed so much, partly because it would have to be set back then.
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The Iron Wristband had lately succeeded his father "Petticoat," as chief of the nation.
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"Petticoat," explained Dick, patiently; "mulier, as the ancient dagoes had it.
At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern Myrtle Reed 1892
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Operation Petticoat ($9 million) Come myFiveBest Ways To Get Stuff FreeWhat is a better way of going green than living free?
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