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  •    A pallid and thin young man, A haggard and lank young man, A greenery-yallery,Grosvenor Gallery, Foot-in-the-grave young man! A Sewell & Cross young man, A Howell & James young man, A push-ing young par-ti-cle 'What's the next ar-ti-cle?' Wa-ter-loo House young man!

    - Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
    Bunthorne and Grosvenor's duet, Patience, act 2.

  • He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that hehasforgottentoshovethe cyanide in the consomme  , and the dinner-gong due any moment.

    -Plum
      Carry On, Jeeves,'Clustering AroundYoung Bingo'.

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