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The little person made a bob-curtsey—"Oh, yes, if you please'm; my name is Mrs. Tiggy-winkle; oh, yes if you please'm, I'm an excellent clear- starcher!"

From A Collection of Beatrix Potter Stories by Potter, Beatrix

The little person made a bob- curtsey—"Oh yes, if you please'm; my name is Mrs. Tiggy-winkle; oh yes if you please'm, I'm an excellent clear- starcher!"

From The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Potter, Beatrix

They did not—the boss starcher explained to me with quiet elegance—think of such a thing as drinking beer behind the boss's back, but they 'just didn't want him to know.'

From Making Both Ends Meet The income and outlay of New York working girls by Clark, Sue Ainslie

When he was fourteen, he went to work on the starcher.

From When God Laughs: and other stories by London, Jack

He would next go on the starcher, and later he would go into the loom room.

From When God Laughs: and other stories by London, Jack