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Some of the Ghosts did goggle, some of the Spooks did stare, But there they sat in a spectral row round "the Squirts" in Trafalgar Square.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, December 5, 1891 by Various
The names of those present on this occasion are unimportant, but they had been known to generations of school-boys as Sighs, Tar, Winks, Squirts, and Pat.
From Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
Tar had frequently given him lines, and Squirts had boxed his ears.
From Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
And Squirts, the master of the Middle Third, grew more ill-tempered every day.
From Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
