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  • It's clean beyond me what he's up to, playing such-like tricks on poor humanity.

    To Kill a Man 2010

  • Sometimes, the way he moons about, it's thinkin 'strong I am that he believes in the fairies and such-like.

    Chapter II 2010

  • The inspirited machines are not really that conventional as tropes in either genre (they might have been done before somewhere but the nearest I can think of is Herbie), not in the way that aliens and elves and such-like are.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • And OBVIOUSLY the squiggly things and the dots HAVE to have something to do with DNA strands and such-like.

    A "Dreme" Come True 2010

  • Perhaps you have been having a bit of a quiet govoreet behind my back, making your own little jokes and such-like.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • The inspirited machines are not really that conventional as tropes in either genre (they might have been done before somewhere but the nearest I can think of is Herbie), not in the way that aliens and elves and such-like are.

    Strange Fiction in the Marketplace Hal Duncan 2008

  • In our own Christian cultures, we notice gradually relaxing taboos about meat on Friday and such-like.

    Cardiac 2009

  • She spent an astonishing amount of time in attending lectures and demonstrations, distributing literature for the junior Anti-Sex League, preparing banners for Hate Week, making collections for the savings campaign, and such-like activities.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • She spent an astonishing amount of time in attending lectures and demonstrations, distributing literature for the junior Anti-Sex League, preparing banners for Hate Week, making collections for the savings campaign, and such-like activities.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • Philipson, who was reserved and silent, both in consequence of his abstinence from the wine-pot, and his unwillingness to mix in conversation with strangers, was looked upon by the landlord as a defaulter in both particulars; and as he aroused his own sluggish nature with the fiery wine, Mengs began to throw out obscure hints about kill-joy, mar-company, spoil-sport, and such-like epithets, which were plainly directed against the Englishman.

    Anne of Geierstein 2008

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