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Nansense, you snorsted? he was haltid considerable agenst all religions overtrow so hworefore the thokkurs pokker the big-bug miklamanded storstore exploder would he be whulesalesolde daadooped by Priest Gudfodren of the sacredhaunt suit in
Finnegans Wake 2006
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I'm a big-bug in this Filipino shack, but I wouldn't dare to let you out openly.
The Adventures of a Boy Reporter Harry Steele Morrison
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When she was at Eastview, so Bessie heard, there was a real big-bug in the Army, a sort of Admiral or Commodore amongst the doctors he was, and HE was trottin 'after her, or would have been if she'd let him.
The Portygee Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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I'm a damned mean man, an 'I isn't unaware; but they isn't a man on the St. John's waterside -- an' they isn't a big-bug o 'Water St.eet -- can say t' _me_,
Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D. Norman Duncan 1893
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But men, like other animals, are subject to crotchets, and are wont to imitate superiors, so when some big-bug like Peter the Great introduced the shears and razor, men appeared soon after with cropped heads and clean chops.
Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Haight, Canniff, 1825-1901 1885
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But men, like other animals, are subject to crotchets, and are wont to imitate superiors, so when some big-bug like Peter the Great introduced the shears and razor, men appeared soon after with cropped heads and clean chops.
Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian Canniff Haight 1863
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He had a certain creative sensibility, and I loved the idea of a big-bug game like
GameSetWatch 2010
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He had a certain creative sensibility, and I loved the idea of a big-bug game like
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We uns war ter be giv'n these big-bug niggers 'houses, churches an' so on.
Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. Jack Thorne
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We uns war ter be giv'n these big-bug niggers 'houses, churches an' so on.
Hanover; or, The Persecution of the Lowly. Story of the Wilmington Massacre 1863
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