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Each summer in the village of Hadley Green, the residents looked forward with eager anticipation to two significant events: the first was the week in June in which the vicar put his gout-ridden body into a borrowed coach and took leave of his flock to call upon his aging sister in Shropshire.
The Year of Living Scandalously Julia London 2010
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Each summer in the village of Hadley Green, the residents looked forward with eager anticipation to two significant events: the first was the week in June in which the vicar put his gout-ridden body into a borrowed coach and took leave of his flock to call upon his aging sister in Shropshire.
The Year of Living Scandalously Julia London 2010
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“Whereas the people who were knocking back the Quinta Da Novel like it was Ribena when they were ten have grown up to be well-balanced, if gout-ridden, adults.”
Drunk Kids Cause Less Bother, Claims Cameron Push Jelly 2008
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“Whereas the people who were knocking back the Quinta Da Novel like it was Ribena when they were ten have grown up to be well-balanced, if gout-ridden, adults.”
Archive 2008-07-01 Push Jelly 2008
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Franklin, aging and gout-ridden, worn by his years shaking the tin cup for America, may have just run out of patience with the demanding sea captain.
John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003
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Franklin, aging and gout-ridden, worn by his years shaking the tin cup for America, may have just run out of patience with the demanding sea captain.
John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003
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He had finally effected a hazardous and ever-memorable migration from Algeciras to Cimiez, but only by acting as chauffeur for a help-abandoned, gout-ridden, and irritable-minded ex-ambassador to Persia, together with a scrupulously inattentive trained nurse, who, apparently, preferred diamonds to a uniform, and smuggled incredible quantities of hand-made lace under the tonneau seat-cushions.
Phantom Wires A Novel Arthur Stringer 1912
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With Colonel Bishop at their head, and gout-ridden Governor Steed sitting on the ruins of a wall beside him, they glumly watched the departure of the eight boats containing the weary Spanish ruffians who had glutted themselves with rapine, murder, and violences unspeakable.
Captain Blood Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Governor's door in Trent and told the poor gout-ridden man that the
Clementina 1906
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For years I have worshipped that miserable gout-ridden professor.
Uncle Vanya 1899
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