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Among the crowd of young Cockneys in jockeyish-looking caps, with travelling
pouches strapped to their sides, there was a rather tall gentleman in a clerical
suit, with his throat covered with the usual white bandages. His highly
respectable ...
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The Innocence of Father Brown
He was not at all jockeyish to look at, though; he had a round black head and a
well-trimmed black beard, bright eyes like a bird's; he jingled money in his
pockets; he jangled a great gold watch chain; and he never turned up except
dressed ...
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Charley Nugent, Or, Passages in the Life of a Sub
... those gentlemen did not appear to be of a very high order, and seemed mostly
to consist of very free and easy remarks upon everything and every body, with
pleasant little asides among themselves of a very slang and jockeyish de-
scription ...
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The Footpath and Highway: Or, Wanderings of an American in ...
A jockeyish parson was reading the impressive burial-service over the body of an
infant as I entered; he turned his sickly, calf-like eyes upon me as I stepped into
the aisle, and drawled out the beautiful language of the ceremony in a spiritless,
...
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The Bible in Spain, Or, The Journeys, Adventures, and ...
Here he pulled out a purse, which contained at least ten ounces of gold. " If I were
willing to sell," I replied, " what would you give me for that horse ?" Ch. IV.]
JOCKEYISH. " Then your worship wishes to sell 72 THE BIBLE IN SPAIN. [Ch. IV.
George Henry Borrow, 1843
... jockeyish boldness. It was one of those delicious days which follow summer
rain, when the sky takes a darker, intenser blue, when the fresh wind rolls in
billows over the standing grain, and troops of white, sailing clouds chequer the ...
Sophia Dickinson Cobb, 1869
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Chambers's pocket miscellany
He had since then been put into proper externals — had learned to do a little in
the way of serving a table — could whistle the hunting-song in Der Freischutz,
and even already had manifested a tendency to that jockeyish coxcombry which
...
Chambers W. and R., ltd, 1852
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Old Wine in New Bottles: Or, Spare Hours of a Student in Paris
As a man he is said to be very rough and jockeyish, and as a public character, in
which light only have I seen him, he is evidently a person of extremely high and
irritable feelings. He is abundantly skilful in his operations, possessing at the ...
Augustus Kinsley Gardner, 1848
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Chambers' Home Book, Or Pocket Miscellany: Containing a ...
He had since then been put into proper externals — had learned to do a little in
the way of serving a table — could whistle the hunting- song in Der Freischutz,
and even already had manifested a tendency to that jockeyish coxcombry which
...
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