Example Sentences

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Well, to begin with, he said you were an old palaverer," said I. "He intimated that there was a good deal of what you might call hatwork in the quality of your conversation.

From From Pillar to Post Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book by Bangs, John Kendrick