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Help pweez! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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We hire a business area manager who is a psychotic slavedriver.
elfpvke Diary Entry elfpvke 2003
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The slavedriver leaves for another company and I finally get my life back.
elfpvke Diary Entry elfpvke 2003
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"In a kennel of dogs, under the lash of a slavedriver; breaking stones, begging my bread, if you said to me: 'Do that, it is atonement!'"
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He looked the savage, barbaric slavedriver he was.
The Vision Splendid William MacLeod Raine 1912
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Think of poor weak innocent Ellie in the clutches of this slavedriver, who spends his life making thousands of rough violent workmen bend to his will and sweat for him: a man accustomed to have great masses of iron beaten into shape for him by steam-hammers! to fight with women and girls over a halfpenny an hour ruthlessly!
Heartbreak House George Bernard Shaw 1903
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Human nature is weak and she has become a slavedriver, after all.
Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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Human nature is weak and she has become a slavedriver, after all.
Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 3 Gilbert Parker 1897
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Human nature is weak and she has become a slavedriver, after all.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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That nervy slavedriver made us lug over two dozen sofa pillows, a rug or two, a bottle of moisture and three pies to while away the time with.
At Good Old Siwash George Fitch 1896
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