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  • The world is bewigging itself, and we must buy a bigger wig than any we have got, in order to confront the world with proper self-respect.

    The Duke's Children 2004

  • The world is bewigging itself, and we must buy a bigger wig than any we have got, in order to confront the world with proper self-respect.

    The Duke's Children Anthony Trollope 1848

  • By assuming a certain pomp in his living, which had been altogether unserviceable to himself and family, by besmearing his footmen's heads, and bewigging his coachmen, by aping, though never achieving, the grand ways of grander men than himself, he had run himself into debt.

    The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope 1848

  • By assuming a certain pomp in his living, which had been altogether unserviceable to himself and family, by besmearing his footmen’s heads, and bewigging his coachmen, by aping, though never achieving, the grand ways of grander men than himself, he had run himself into debt.

    The Way We Live Now 2004

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