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7 total sentences available.
Our writers of history have been aroused from “ their somnolent antiquarian busy-work on kippered events and are feeling the force of living ones and learning what it means to get in the study of the present inspiration and interest for assimilating a knowledge of the past.
Source: wiktionary
At first I thought perhaps my students were writing this kind of kippered prose because they were attempting scenes and subjects that they knew nothing about.
Source: wiktionary
and he caused offence by banging the drums and beating the cymbals at a dance in Lucknow, and sitting at table beside pretty ingénues rather than kippered memsahibs of suitable seniority.
Source: wiktionary
She was, at heart, as dry, as kippered, as intentionalist, and coldly selfconscious as the driest of Egyptian book-keepers in a great merchant firm at Corinth.
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include cure by smoking, cured, salt cure, smoked.
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