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This kind of thing was imitated all over Southern California on half-million dollar homes in dumpy neighborhoods with nobody being caught because the losses from fraud were too spread out for anybody to bother burning any shoe leather to check them out.

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This kind of thing was imitated all over Southern California on half-million dollar homes in dumpy neighborhoods with nobody being caught because the losses from fraud were too spread out for anybody to bother burning any shoe leather to check them out.

Anti-Goldman-Sachsism, the Führer Principle, and Other Delusions of Crowds 2008

This kind of thing was imitated all over Southern California on half-million dollar homes in dumpy neighborhoods with nobody being caught because the losses from fraud were too spread out for anybody to bother burning any shoe leather to check them out.

The California Disconnection 2008

Also they are really gouged for rent by other less recent immigrants and they are forced to live in dumpy overcrowded apts: the landlords tell them it is against the law to have so many people in a 2 bedroom apt, BUT if they pay more, it is OK.

Oaxaca and My Children 2004

At daybreak yesterday we were steaming up a branch of the great Me-kong river in Cochin China, a muddy stream, densely fringed by the nipah palm, whose dark green fronds, ten and twelve feet long, look as if they grew out of the ground, so dumpy is its stem.

The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883

Arthur was about sixteen years old, we have said, when he began to reign; in person (for I see that the artist who is to illustrate this book, and who makes sad work of the likeness, will never be able to take my friend off) he had what his friends would call a dumpy, but his mamma styled a neat little figure.

The History of Pendennis 2006

My Thomas is an angel! not a tall grenadier-like looking fellow, such as I always vowed I would marry: — on the contrary, he is what the world would call dumpy, and I hesitate not to confess, that his eyes have a cast in them.

The Fatal Boots 2006

Arthur was about sixteen years old, we have said, when he began to reign; in person (for I see that the artist who is to illustrate this book, and who makes sad work of the likeness, will never be able to take my friend off) he had what his friends would call a dumpy, but his mamma styled a neat little figure.

The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

My Thomas is an angel! not a tall grenadier-like looking fellow, such as I always vowed I would marry: -- on the contrary, he is what the world would call dumpy, and I hesitate not to confess, that his eyes have a cast in them.

The Fatal Boots William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

for a blog that is so sympathetic to sexual orientation, you ought to give MA the same consideration and not call her dumpy looking.

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