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Examples
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After this, we are not surprised to hear that Scott's father told him disgustedly that he was better fitted to be a fiddling peddler, a "gangrel scrape-gut," than a respectable attorney.
Lady of the Lake Walter Scott 1801
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No wonder old Mr. Scott felt some doubt of his son's success at the bar, and thought him more fitted in many respects for a “gangrel scrape-gut.” [
Sir Walter Scott Hutton, Richard 1878
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No wonder old Mr. Scott felt some doubt of his son's success at the bar, and thought him more fitted in many respects for a "gangrel scrape-gut." [
Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) Richard Holt Hutton 1861
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