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oroboros (4023 words)
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Loaded Dice, by oroboros
jaden's Words, by jaden
2007bee-r03, by prakash
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To stop dilapidations till we get there, said he, we may renew our term by a little breakfast from my wallet. When I am on a journey I am always my own caterer. None of your woollen drapery, nor linen drapery, nor any of your frippery or trumpery.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 2 ch. 6
"If only there were a good-humored girl among these trumpery queans... but they seem a hard-faced set entirely..."
--Patrick O'Brian, Treason's Harbour, 78
I hate such old-fashioned trumpery.
Goldsmith, She Stoops, I
...Embryo's and Idiots, Eremits and Friers
White, Black and Grey, with all thir trumperie.
Milton, Paradise Lost III