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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

  • Said he to himself: 'Am I not the most accomplished slip-string the world has known?

    A Book of Scoundrels Charles Whibley 1894

  • slip-string’ = pendard (Beaumont and Fletcher), ‘slip-gibbet’,

    English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

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