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  • She sounded likethe bookof Revelations read out overa railway station public-address system bya headmistress of a certain age wearing calico knickers.

    - CliveVivian Leopold James
      Of Margaret Thatcher. In the Observer.

  •    It's no go the merrygoround, it's no go the rickshaw, All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peepshow. Their knickers are made of cre"  pe-de-chine, their shoes are made of python, Their halls are lined with tiger rugs and their walls with the heads of bison.

    - (Frederick) Louis MacNeice
      'Bagpipe Music', stanza1.

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