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Not some jack-leg idiot given a job in DC to epay his work to get him elected.
Our Supreme Moment 2008
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As in, ‘That jack-leg preacher sure can bring the fire and brimstone.’
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And I think he was what we would call a jack-leg electrician.
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We ain't a-goin 'to help this yer jack-leg prosecutin' attorney send ol 'Jim up.
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson
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During that twenty years whenever, to further his ends in a primary or in an election, Charley Hedrick needed the votes of the rough element that gathered about our little town, Abner Handy, card-sharper and jack-leg lawyer, would go forth into the byways and alleys and gather them in.
In Our Town William Allen White 1906
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State, if he follows all iv what Casey calls recent precidints, he's limited to ayether a jack-leg counthry lawyer, that has set around
Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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He has been told many a time how the born-and-trained novelist works; won't he let me round and complete his knowledge by telling him how the jack-leg does it?
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Won't he let me round and complete his knowledge by telling him how the jack-leg does it?
Those Extraordinary Twins Mark Twain 1872
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Sludge samples were recently collected from "jack-leg" percussion holes drilled into "D"
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These jack-leg intersections represent approximate true width.
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