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But you paltry, silly, innocent wretches must make us amends; and, by gold, we will innocentize your fopship with a wannion, you never were so innocentized in your days; the devil shall sing mass among ye.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Come out with a vengeance; come out with a wannion; come out and be damned; now for clawing.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Come out with a vengeance; come out with a wannion; come out and be damned; now for clawing.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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But you paltry, silly, innocent wretches must make us amends; and, by gold, we will innocentize your fopship with a wannion, you never were so innocentized in your days; the devil shall sing mass among ye.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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"Nay, lord, and with a wannion -- there was more to like purpose."
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Look how thou stirrest now! come away, or Ill fetch thee with a wannion.
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Bear a hand, ye lazy rogues, or I'll be among ye with my cane, with a wannion to ye! '
Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Presbyterian scoundrel, who calls himself a parson, and whom I hope to fetch down from his perch presently, with a wannion to him!
Peveril of the Peak 1822
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She belongs to a neighbour hard by -- a good man, and, to say truth, a good neighbour -- though he was carried off from his allegiance in the late times by a d-- d Presbyterian scoundrel, who calls himself a parson, and whom I hope to fetch down from his perch presently, with a wannion to him!
Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801
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Come out with a vengeance; come out with a wannion; come out and be damned; now for clawing.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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