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  • There was a time you started seeing beyond the first level, you were peeping behind the curtain, the scales were falling from your eyes, the puppet masters strings were coming into view, than whoosh ... here you are, back to a Kool-Aid drinking, blue-pill taking partisan.

    Give Obama a Chance to Do What? 2009

  • There was a time you started seeing beyond the first level, you were peeping behind the curtain, the scales were falling from your eyes, the puppet masters strings were coming into view, than whoosh ... here you are, back to a Kool-Aid drinking, blue-pill taking partisan.

    Give Obama a Chance to Do What? 2009

  • There was a time you started seeing beyond the first level, you were peeping behind the curtain, the scales were falling from your eyes, the puppet masters strings were coming into view, than whoosh ... here you are, back to a Kool-Aid drinking, blue-pill taking partisan.

    Give Obama a Chance to Do What? 2009

  • He scarcely knew a single soul in the metropolis: and were it not for his doctor, and the society of his blue-pill, and his liver complaint, he must have died of loneliness.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • With squill, blue-pill, and other means to soothe the patient's torments.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 20, 1841 Various

  • I was under the influence of morphine and blue-pill; but, such was the interest I took in it and in the Jesuitical comments of Mr. ` Enquirer 'Ritchie on the ferocious and bloodthirsty proclamation of our Djezzar Pacha, (a) that I did not close an eye until daybreak.

    John Randolph of Roanoke, 1773-1833 1922

  • But he was always exceedingly communicative in a man’s party, and has told this delightful tale many scores of times to his apothecary, Dr. Gollop, when he came to inquire about the liver and the blue-pill.

    III. Rebecca Is in Presence of the Enemy 1917

  • He scarcely knew a single soul in the metropolis: and were it not for his doctor, and the society of his blue-pill, and his liver complaint, he must have died of loneliness.

    III. Rebecca Is in Presence of the Enemy 1917

  • She had the profound maternal instinct which is so large an element in the love of every experienced and tender wife; and when Reuben thrashed profanely upon his pillows, staring out of the window above the vase of jonquils, without looking at her, clearly without thinking of her, she swallowed her surprise as if it had been a blue-pill, and tolerantly thought:

    Comrades 1911

  • "I should recommend the estimable Moraes and a blue-pill," said

    The Path to Honour Sydney C. Grier 1900

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