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Ickam purseproud in sending uym loveliest pansiful thoughts touching me dash inyou through wee dots Hyphen, the so pretty arched godkin of beddingnights.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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To be sure, as the purseproud insolence of a _nouveau riche_, and indeed of _parvenus_ generally, is quite unknown among us, nobody could rely on those points of resemblance.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various
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