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While all about me the riders smiled, laughed, grunted porcinely – I was struck down and immersed in the darkness of gloom.
The Stainless Steel Rat Returns – Chapter 2 « Official Harry Harrison News Blog 2009
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While all about me the riders smiled, laughed, grunted porcinely – I was struck down and immersed in the darkness of gloom.
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Yet I can always pray that I'm completely wrong and that the world isn't as porcinely obtuse as it sincerely appears to me to be.
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Von Lappus snorted porcinely, shifted his bulk, opened his small blue eyes, fixed Kurt with his stare.
The Heirs of Babylon Cook, Glen 1972
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"Yes, if like pig-weed he mows it down soon as it shoots," porcinely rubbing his stubble-chin against his coon-skins.
The Confidence-Man 1857
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"Yes, if like pig-weed he mows it down soon as it shoots," porcinely rubbing his stubble-chin against his coon-skins.
The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855
hernesheir commented on the word porcinely
The effort of every novelist, and the demand of all but the most porcinely voracious of novel readers, is for as true and complete a representation of human nature as the insight and skill of the novelist enable him to compass. -- p. 563 of H.D. Traill's, The Novel of Manners, pp. 561-576 in The Nineteenth Century, a Monthly Review, Vol. 18, No. CI, 1885, edited by James Knowles.
April 25, 2011
hernesheir commented on the word porcinely
swinishly, piggishly
April 26, 2011