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"ref": "1900, Harvey Buxon, Our Remarkable Fledger, page 208",
"text": "' I always felt you were no gentleman, and this proves it,' remarks the disconsolate yet temperless Ladlaw, as he pockets his cash.",
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"ref": "1997, Louis Auchincloss, The Atonement and Other Stories",
"text": "I could now even visualize the son, that impassive, humorless, temperless man, as a kind of lethal vine twisting itself ineluctably around the stout trunk of a venerable oak, or even, more horribly, as a giant anaconda around the body of a strangled steer.",
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