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Next morning, Miss Scatcherd wrote in conspicuous characters on a piece of pasteboard the word "Slattern," and bound it like a phylactery round Helen's large, mild, intelligent, and benign-looking forehead.
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It was the year of grace 1750, and old Mother Corrigan sat outside her door in Slattern Alley, smoking her short black pipe with a relish; and't was a good day with her, for she had told his fortune that morning for
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Looked more like the dress of a real Miss Slattern
Nothing to Eat Horatio Alger 1865
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-- Yes, I always know when Lady Slattern has been before me.
The Rivals A Comedy Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1783
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Lady Slattern Lounger, who had just sent it home, had so soiled and dog's-eared it, it wa'n't fit for a Christian to read.
The Rivals A Comedy Richard Brinsley Sheridan 1783
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She is uncleanly in her Person, a Slattern in her Dress, and her Family is no better than a Dunghill_.
The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700
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Slattern is a custom toilet seat baron who tries to cheat young T-Bird, engaging him to mow his lawn for 75-cents, only to open the gate on an overgrown, thistle-choked yard.
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