Just hand the old quockerwodger over to me! I'll cut him in half and each part will dance on the rope just as comically as you please!
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Just hand the old quockerwodger over to me! I'll cut him in half and each part will dance on the rope just as comically as you please!
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"I have a word for writers of his stripe," Mrs. Hale continued. […] "Quockerwodgers, I call them. Quockerwodgers are puppets. Always squawking. 'Look at me!' But they never do anything very remarkable or different."
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[Charles] Lee was a scarecrow, cantankerous, acidulous, arrogant, breathlessly ugly, as jerky as a quockerwodger, but he knew more about the art of war, as it was breathlessly called, than anybody else in America […]
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Pierre Soulé was a distinguished and effervescent resident of New Orleans. He was a jumping-jack of a man, a man who leapt into action like a quockerwodger when you jerk the string.
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