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  • We'll find deserters out theer es thick as blue-bottles on a barkiss.

    The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850

  • Menestrels by the old spot, Roy’s Corner, had a barkiss revolver placed to his faced with the words: you’re shot, major: by an unknowable assailant (masked) against whom he had been jealous over, Lotta Crabtree or Pomona Evlyn.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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