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  • Florry had said that he was a "Sheeny," but there was nothing of the Jew about him apart from his colouring, his brilliant dark eyes; unless it were a sort of inner glow, an ardour, curbed by his almost childlike shyness, lack of self-confidence in everything apart from his music: that something, at once finer and more cruelly persistent, vital, than is to be found in the purely Anglo-Saxon race.

    The Best British Short Stories of 1922 Various 1915

  • Florry had said that he was a "Sheeny," but there was nothing of the

    The Best British Short Stories of 1922 John Cournos 1915

  • I do everything, from Sheeny monologue to team song and dance and Dutch comedian.

    Amateur Night 2010

  • In September we moved on Lucknow in style, with fresh troops under Outram, a dirty-looking little chap on a waler horse, more like a Sheeny tailor than a general.

    Fiancée 2010

  • I sort of got used to being called Jewboy and Dirty Jew and Kike and Sheeny.

    Facts: Campaign Collateral Damage 2008

  • I sort of got used to being called Jewboy and Dirty Jew and Kike and Sheeny.

    William Fisher: Facts: Campaign Collateral Damage 2008

  • He also took time to compose and sing a little ditty about Houdini: Harry Houdini, he sure is a Sheeny, A man with a crook in his shoe.

    The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006

  • He also took time to compose and sing a little ditty about Houdini: Harry Houdini, he sure is a Sheeny, A man with a crook in his shoe.

    The Secret Life of Houdini William Kalush 2006

  • Sheeny greyish green, like the gum – leaves become vivid: and yellowish breast, like the suave gum – tree trunks.

    Kangaroo 2004

  • A huge red-headed Irishman was named "Sheeny Solomon."

    The Rough Riders Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1992

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