For if a peer come like a porter jacketed, Retire he must:—tho’ up he raise his back at it,
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For if a peer come like a porter jacketed, Retire he must:—tho’ up he raise his back at it,
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1895, Bret Harte, “A Convert of the Mission” first published in Boston Transcript, 10 December, 1895, From the velvet-jacketed figures lounging motionless in the shadows of the open doorways—so motionless that only the lazy drift of cigarette smoke betokened their breathing—to the reclining peons in the shade of a catalpa, or the squatting Indians in the arroyo—all was sloth and dirt.
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The residence of the British Council representative was in a quieter and perhaps more patrician part of Lija than my own. Geoffrey, sitting tied and jacketed next to Ali, who was driving, pointed this out […]
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One of the advantages of a matrix would be to reduce the cost of our shrapnel by enabling hardened lead balls and round cases to be used in place of the steel-jacketed balls and hexagonal cases...
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