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Who can imagine that these poor snakes, the very extracts of ichthyophagy, are not thoroughly enough besmoked and besmeared with misery, distress, and calamity?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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O Lord God now! how the villain hath besmoked me with vexation and anger, with charms and witchcraft, and with a terrible coil and stir of infernal and Tartarian devils!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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O Lord God now! how the villain hath besmoked me with vexation and anger, with charms and witchcraft, and with a terrible coil and stir of infernal and Tartarian devils!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Without great difficulty they entered into that straw-thatched cottage, scurvily built, naughtily movabled, and all besmoked.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Without great difficulty they entered into that straw-thatched cottage, scurvily built, naughtily movabled, and all besmoked.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Who can imagine that these poor snakes, the very extracts of ichthyophagy, are not thoroughly enough besmoked and besmeared with misery, distress, and calamity?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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On one side hung a very large oil painting so thoroughly besmoked, and every way defaced, that in the unequal crosslights by which you viewed it, it was only by diligent study and a series of systematic visits to it, and careful inquiry of the neighbors, that you could any way arrive at an understanding of its purpose.
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In the basement of the building you would find the press-room, with its steam engine, its furnaces, its presses, its dark demi-devils, and ghostly and ghastly gnomes and genii groping or flitting about amid the glare and gloom, begrimed and besmoked, seemingly at work at unhallowed yet supernatural toil, which toil, as if
Edmond Dantès Edmund Flagg
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By the aid of the besmoked hall lantern, he glanced hastily through the two letters.
Janice Meredith Paul Leicester Ford 1883
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He disliked besmoked drawing-rooms and irregular meals and untidy arrangements; he could suffer from the vulgarity of Mrs. Rooth's apartments, the importunate photographs which gave on his nerves, the barbarous absence of signs of an orderly domestic life, the odd volumes from the circulating library
The Tragic Muse Henry James 1879
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