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There was scarcely a form of the life he saw that did not seem to him worthy of song, though it might be but the gossip of two rude hinds, or the drinking bout of the Thessalian horse-jobber, and the false girl
Theocritus Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose 300 BC-260 BC Theocritus 1878
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Sprung from the arid and calcined mountains of the south, where the very brutes are more ferocious; by turns butcher, farrier, and smuggler, in the gorges which separate Savoy from France; a soldier, deserter, horse-jobber, and then a keeper of a low wine shop in the suburbs of
History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution Alphonse de Lamartine 1829
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a herd of cattle at a station and a horse-jobber fell under the engine, and his foot was cut off.
The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories Anton Pavlovich Chekhov 1882
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