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  • The campaign recognizes that previous outreach, such as when John called his wife a "trollope" and "you cunt," were unsuccessful.

    Bart Motes: Palin Press Release First Draft 2008

  • Michael Jackson obits, Sanford obits or Tehran obitsWhile CNN and other MSM deluge the internet and TV with trollope, important news takes a backseat.

    Business as usual for embattled South Carolina governor 2009

  • If Laura Bush gave a damn about more than her smokes, Xanax, Charodnnay, and her trollope daughters, she might not like her husband's closest advisor calling him her husband.

    Archive 2004-04-01 2004

  • There was also a style of dress called a “trollope,” which had stiff stays and hoops so large that the wearer was obliged to wiggle, bend, and point to maneuver herself sideways through a door.

    Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

  • There was also a style of dress called a “trollope,” which had stiff stays and hoops so large that the wearer was obliged to wiggle, bend, and point to maneuver herself sideways through a door.

    Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

  • "I know," said Paulding, writing to him in later life, "you consider old Sal as a sort of saucy, flippant trollope, belonging to nobody, and not worth fathering."

    Literary and Social Essays George William Curtis 1858

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