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Examples
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This was strictly groundbait - there was jade within forty miles of the frontier in Sinkiang and the Russians had mining concessions, Kirinski was a geological engineer, his apartment was full of roughcuts, so forth - but there was a lot of info coming through because she didn't seem surprised at what I'd told her.
The Sinkiang Executive Hall, Adam 1978
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Staring dumbly out at the toiling sweltering human ant-hill Comus marvelled how missionary enthusiasts could labour hopefully at the work of transplanting their religion, with its homegrown accretions of fatherly parochial benevolence, in this heat-blistered, fever - scourged wilderness, where men lived like groundbait and died like flies.
The Unbearable Bassington 1870-1916 Saki 1893
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A by-way leads down to the river where boats are lying for hire -- a dozen narrow punts, waiting at this anchorage till groundbait be lawful.
Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867
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Poor old Poland, like the Czech Republic and the UK, gets strongarmed into becoming America's groundbait.
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Poor old Poland, like the Czech Republic and the UK, gets strongarmed into becoming America's groundbait.
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He pinned his faith in feeder tactics, casting a tiny open-end with groundbait across to the far margins where he caught F1s to 2lb plus a few small mirror carp.
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Poor old Poland, like the Czech Republic and the UK, gets strongarmed into becoming America's groundbait.
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Poor old Poland, like the Czech Republic and the UK, gets strongarmed into becoming America's groundbait.
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Poor old Poland, like the Czech Republic and the UK, gets strongarmed into becoming America's groundbait.
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Poor old Poland, like the Czech Republic and the UK, gets strongarmed into becoming America's groundbait.
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