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Brown to my knowledge is unique, certainly in the modern age of politics for not have been elected in any way shape or form discounting his constituency election which is about as red rosette and donkeyish as you can get and thus not a real test for him and this is now painfully apparent.
Archive 2009-04-01 Mark Reckons 2009
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Brown to my knowledge is unique, certainly in the modern age of politics for not have been elected in any way shape or form discounting his constituency election which is about as red rosette and donkeyish as you can get and thus not a real test for him and this is now painfully apparent.
This Government is now the walking dead Mark Reckons 2009
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To devote serious exposition to the badness of such stuff would be to descend to the donkeyish futility of William Winter.
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But it is spoiled and made a mock of by a donkeyish solemnity of attack which leaves it, on the one hand, diffuse, spineless and shapeless, and on the other hand, a compendium of platitudes.
A Book of Prefaces 1918
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The old wife was in a bad humor, and she was not the better pleased when her donkey, moved by some eccentric donkeyish idea, gave a loud bray and went trotting gleefully off down the hill.
Masters of the Guild L. Lamprey 1910
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