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Examples
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And even if this serial toss-pot actually bought a 1994 version, was the 1997 Saab really any better?
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He is an arrogant, pompous toss-pot and if the unimportant little squaw-esses in the typing pool have to show their passes to get in and out, I see no reason why Geronimo and his mates on the top floor should not do likewise!
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But if the captain commanding were "true steel, an old bold blade, one of the old buccaneers, a hearty brave toss-pot, a trump, a true twopenny" -- why, then, they would spend thirty or forty pounds apiece in a drinking bout aboard his ship, "carousing and firing of Guns three or four days together."
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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Edmund Clarence Stedman's "Falstaff's Song," a noteworthy lyric of toss-pot moralization on death.
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Though I have been a toss-pot these twenty good years,
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Complete George Gilfillan 1845
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Though I have been a toss-pot these twenty good years,
Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 2 George Gilfillan 1845
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Amidst this edifying display of toss-pot eloquence and genial uproar, my attention was particularly attracted to the behaviour of this exemplary publican.
Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. 1832
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He really is a discredited, wholly irrelevant toss-pot - a nobody - a nothing.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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He really is a discredited, wholly irrelevant toss-pot - a nobody - a nothing.
Army Rumour Service 2009
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Between the hours at which the last toss-pot went by and the first sparrow shook himself, the silence in Casterbridge -- barring the rare sound of the watchman -- was broken in Elizabeth's ear only by the time-piece in the bedroom ticking frantically against the clock on the stairs; ticking harder and harder till it seemed to clang like a gong; and all this while the subtle - souled girl asking herself why she was born, why sitting in
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