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As stupid as a gray gelding.
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They teased the girl with castor oil, and therefore she did not marry.
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N. all his life used to write abusive letters to famous singers, actors, and authors: "You think, you scamp,…"—without signing his name.
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When the man who carried the torch at funerals came out in his three-cornered hat, his frock coat with laces and stripes, she fell in love with him.
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A sparkling, joyous nature, a kind of living protest against grumblers; he is fat and healthy, eats a great deal, every one likes him but only because they are afraid of the grumblers; he is a nobody, a Ham, only eats and laughs loud, and that's all; when he dies, every one sees that he had done nothing, that they had mistaken him for some one else.