unearths some literary gems.
From An English Murder, by Cyril Hare:
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Those marginalia! Those crabbed, truncated interlineations!... Dr. Bottwink stared in angry bewilderment at the hieroglyphics before him and across two centuries muttered maledictions on Lord Warbeck and his ill-mended quill pen.
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From The Dying Alderman, by Henry Wade:
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[Nonsense Department, Hogwash-and-Eyewash Division]
"This is all mouthwash."