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Examples
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The Times stomps the proposed "compromise" that the lily-liver Democrats in Congress are prepared to support with all the gleeful enthusiasm of our own Glenzilla!
Hullabaloo 2008
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And in the days of my triumphs, when people were yet afraid of me, and were taken in by my swagger, I always knew that I was a lily-liver, and expected that I should be found out some day.
Roundabout Papers 2006
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We traded war stories, and I got around to complaining about Wilson, who I took to be a lily-liver.
The One in White 2004
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At least a lily-liver has a straightforward position.
The One in White 2004
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At least a lily-liver has a straightforward position.
The One in White 2004
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We traded war stories, and I got around to complaining about Wilson, who I took to be a lily-liver.
The One in White 2004
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And in the days of my triumphs, when people were yet afraid of me, and were taken in by my swagger, I always knew that I was a lily-liver, and expected that I should be found out some day.
Roundabout Papers William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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