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  • Not even Life, the stool-pigeon, the arch-capper for the game -- Life, the ever flourishing graveyard, the everlasting funeral procession.

    Chapter VIII 2010

  • The pulses race with "Report of cat trapped at address in Tameside", only to deflate with the note that the stool-pigeon is a regular nuisance caller.

    Bobbies on the tweet - police go online Stephen Bates 2010

  • Harper and Ladue's behind it, and Carmack's the stool-pigeon.

    Chapter X 2010

  • A big hurdle the feds have to overcome in their prosecution of legendary gangster John (Sonny) Franzese is getting jurors to look past whatever disdain they acquired for the mobster's spoiled-rotten, drug-addled, stool-pigeon son during his four days on the witness stand.

    Jerry Capeci: Songbird Son Slams Sonny; Mom: It's Redemption For Both 2010

  • Back in the day, and much earlier in this terrible hejira, some class-betraying stool-pigeon would have whispered a word in the ear of the local bobby.

    Public Officials Did Not Kill “Baby P” « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • The ONLY reason Israel even exists today is because of the concentration of power and wealth that stool-pigeon Adolf Hitler provided to them thanks to their financing him against their own people.

    Defending Zionism - Defending the Indefensible 2009

  • In other words, Miller has earned the right to go from Rosa Parks (the Times description) to a common stool-pigeon without explanation and while still upholding the highest standards of the Times 'editorial staff.

    Why not Torture Judith Miller? 2005

  • A close study of Bonhag would have seemed to indicate that he was a stool-pigeon of Desmas, but this was really not true except in a limited way.

    The Financier 2004

  • For their part, despite early suspicions that Madame had hired me to be house stool-pigeon, they finally came around to treating me as a member of the team.

    The Luxembourg Run Ellin, Stanley 1977

  • You have rendered false accounts of sales, using your own clerks for sham purchasers, and employing stool-pigeon auctioneers.

    The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

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