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And how the crowd loved her, cheering her on, and her hawker sisters called ribaldly after.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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And how the crowd loved her, cheering her on, and her hawker sisters called ribaldly after.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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Episcopalian flock -- and Mrs. Conklin told the women that altogether he was a credit to his sex and his family -- a remark which has passed about ribaldly in town for a dozen years, though Mortimer Conklin never knew that he was the subject of a town joke.
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"Red, black and yellow -- the Zingari colours," I said ribaldly, and
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920 Various 1898
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He shaved every day, wore a frock-coat and a high hat to church -- where for ten years he was the only male member of the Episcopalian flock -- and Mrs. Conklin told the women that altogether he was a credit to his sex and his family -- a remark which was passed about ribaldly in town for a dozen years, though Mortimer Conklin never knew that he was the subject of a town joke.
In Our Town William Allen White 1906
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