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  • The bearer of this letter is an old friend of mine not quite the right side of the blanket as they say in fact he is the son of a first rate butcher but his mother was a decent family called Hyssopps of the Glen so you see he is not so bad and is desireus of being the correct article.

    - Daisy Mary Margaret Ashford
      TheYoung Visiters, or Mr Salteena's Plan, ch.5.

  •    When Harriet goes to bed with a man, she always takes her wet blanket with her.

    - Anatole Broyard
      On a character in Iris Owen's  After Claude (1973).  Aroused by Books.

  • There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket.

    - Robertson Davies
      Love and Libel.

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