Example Sentences

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“And as for old Paul,” continued Mr Penwynn, from behind the paper, “he’s a bilious, chronic, ill-tempered, liverless old capsicum, who would rob his own mother of her good name—if she had one.”

From The Vicar's People by Fenn, George Manville

Now these boys were his three sons, two of them middle-aged, white-headed, liverless men in Upper India, and the third that gay dragoon with whom we have had some slight acquaintance.

From Tony Butler by Lever, Charles James

Tenderly Bloom over liverless bacon saw the tightened features strain.

From Ulysses by Joyce, James