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  • Every sewerman who felt the ground giving way beneath him began by flinging away his sack of tools, or his back-basket, or his hod.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • Every sewerman who felt the ground giving way beneath him began by flinging away his sack of tools, or his back-basket, or his hod.

    Les Miserables, Volume V, Jean Valjean 1862

  • Every sewerman who felt the ground giving way beneath him began by flinging away his sack of tools, or his back-basket, or his hod.

    Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843

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