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Examples
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I disown both the terms liberal and social democrat because these people fundamentally believe in the current status quo while those I consider to be genu-wine, red-blooded, red-fisted Leftists do not.
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Wilkes was most fortunate as a lover, and the damp, sandy-haired, saucer-eyed, red-fisted Mr. Slope was powerful only over the female breast.
Barchester Towers 2004
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He was one of those heavy, full-grown boys, thick-legged, red-fisted, bursting with flesh, designed for the great outdoors.
Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959
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The red-fisted garçon, without waiting for orders, set up before me, like ten-pins, a castor in wood with two enormous bottles, and a litre of that rinsing of the vats which, under the name "wine of the country," is so distressingly similar in every neighborhood.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 Various
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Youre not the only man, said Mortimer blandly, still striving to reconcile his preconceived theories with the awkward half-confession of this great, red-fisted, hulking horseman riding at his stirrup.
The Fighting Chance 1899
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A mite of a little woman with blood thinned by California zephyrs was hardly fair game for the red-fisted, short-breathed old duffer.
The Trimmed Lamp, and other Stories of the Four Million O. Henry 1886
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Wilkes was most fortunate as a lover, and the damp, sandy-haired, saucer-eyed, red-fisted Mr. Slope was powerful only over the female breast.
Barchester Towers Anthony Trollope 1848
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