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  • Leaves of Grass uncovers a democratic dance … the butcher-boy sharpening his knife … the carpenter dressing his plank … the Yankee girl workingher sewing machine.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Leaves of Grass uncovers a democratic dance … the butcher-boy sharpening his knife … the carpenter dressing his plank … the Yankee girl workingher sewing machine.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Leaves of Grass uncovers a democratic dance … the butcher-boy sharpening his knife … the carpenter dressing his plank … the Yankee girl workingher sewing machine.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Leaves of Grass uncovers a democratic dance … the butcher-boy sharpening his knife … the carpenter dressing his plank … the Yankee girl workingher sewing machine.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • Leaves of Grass uncovers a democratic dance … the butcher-boy sharpening his knife … the carpenter dressing his plank … the Yankee girl workingher sewing machine.

    FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007

  • The butcher-boy who galloped his horse and cart madly about the adjoining lanes and common, whistled wild melodies

    The Newcomes 2006

  • ‘Maybe we may, some day; one down and another come on, you know; as the butcher-boy said.’

    The Kellys and the O'Kellys 2004

  • If he went on the streets he was instantly recognized by some newsboy or cabman or butcher-boy, and the word ran along like

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • Mr. Goon had felt that it was a miracle to find a red-headed boy, even if he wasn't a telegraph-boy or a butcher-boy.

    The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1966

  • Fatty was his friend - and yet to say that the butcher-boy was his friend would lead him into difficulties.

    The Mystery of the Spiteful Letters Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1966

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