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  • 'Orses and dorgs is some men's fancy. They're wittles and drink to melodging, wife, and children reading, writing and 'rithmeticsnuff, tobacker, and sleep.

    - CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
    ^50  Man on the Canterbury coach. David Copperfield, ch.19.

  • When they talked of their Raphaels,Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet, and only took snuff.

    - Oliver Goldsmith
      Of Reynolds. Retaliation, l.145^6.

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