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I've found, as a general rule in life, that the things that you think are going to be the scaliest nearly always turn out to be not so bad after all; but it wasn't that way with Bingo's tea party.

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And for perhaps a minute there was one of the scaliest silences I've ever run up against.

My Man Jeeves 1928

It is then that, stripped for a brief moment of our armour of complacency and self-esteem, we see ourselves as we are -- frightful chumps in a world where nothing goes right; a grey world in which, hoping to click, we merely get the raspberry; where, animated by the best intentions, we nevertheless succeed in perpetrating the scaliest bloomers and landing our loved ones neck-deep in the gumbo.

Jill the Reckless 1928

She did not know that this Congo River was the home of the Crocodile, the biggest, fiercest, scaliest, hungriest Crocodile in all Africa.

The Curious Book of Birds Abbie Farwell Brown 1899

On one eventful night we saw some refuse fish being wheeled off in a barrow, and we begged leave to abstract a fish, which was -- I say it without fear of contradiction -- the knobbiest and scaliest member of the finny tribe.

The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary James Runciman 1871

(The scaliest trick they ever played wuz bringin 'on me hither),

The Biglow Papers James Russell Lowell 1855

(The scaliest trick they ever played wuz bringin 'on me hither,)

The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

"And I seed the biggest, longest, rip-roarenest, blackest, scaliest --" Captain Suggs paused, wiped his brow, and ejaculated "Ah, L-o-r-d!" so as to give full time for curiosity to become impatience to know what he saw.

Some Adventures of Captain Simon Suggs, Late of the Tallapoosa Volunteers; Together with "Taking the Census," and Other Alabama Sketches. By a Country Editor. With a Portrait from Life, and Other Illustrations, by Darley 1845

As to roast fowls, Miss, why you must be quite surfeited with roast fowls, letting alone your buying, when you market for yourself, the agedest of poultry with the scaliest of legs, quite as if you was accustomed to picking 'em out for cheapness.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens 1841

Beowulf's three key battles with the scaliest brutes in all of art: Grendel, Grendel's mother

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