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Examples
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Said he to himself: ` Am I not the most accomplished slip-string the world has known?
A Book of Scoundrels 1896
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Said he to himself: 'Am I not the most accomplished slip-string the world has known?
A Book of Scoundrels Charles Whibley 1894
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‘slip-string’ = pendard (Beaumont and Fletcher), ‘slip-gibbet’,
English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846
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