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  • 21make a purse for yourself —    obsolete    to steal or embezzle    You filled it without having to earn the contents:     The wife of one of his acquaintance had fraudulently made a purse for herself out of her husband s fortune. (J. Boswell, 1791 the wife died without… …

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  • 22boxing — boxing1 /bok sing/, n. 1. the material used to make boxes or casings. 2. a boxlike enclosure; casing. 3. an act or instance of putting into or furnishing with a box. [1510 20; BOX1 + ING1] boxing2 /bok sing/, n. the act, technique, or profession… …

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  • 23Don King (boxing promoter) — Don King Don King Born August 20, 1931 (1931 08 20) (age 80) Cleveland, Ohio, USA Nationality …

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  • 24Old Fortunatus — The Pleasant Comedie of Old Fortunatus (1599) is a play in a mixture of prose and verse by Thomas Dekker, based on the German legend of Fortunatus and his magic inexhaustible purse. Though the play is not easy to categorise, it has been called… …

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  • 25Kitsune (Usagi Yojimbo) — Superherobox| caption=Kitsune holding Sachiko Cover of Usagi Yojimbo Volume 3, Issue 52 comic color=background:#80ffff character name=Kitsune real name=Unknown publisher=Dark Horse Comics debut= creators=Stan Sakai alliance… …

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  • 26Your Five Gallants — is a Jacobean comedy by Thomas Middleton. It falls into the sub genre of city comedy. Allusions in the play point to a date of authorship of 1607.The play was entered into the Stationers Register on March 22, 1608. The quarto published by… …

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  • 27Todd Pletcher — Horseracing personalities infobox name = Todd Pletcher caption = occupation = Thoroughbred Horse Trainer birth place = Dallas, Texas birth date = June 26, 1967 death date = career wins = race = awards = NATIONAL/ECLIPSE CHAMPIONS: *Ashado Top… …

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  • 28The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling — infobox Book | name = Tom Jones title orig = The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling translator = image caption = Title page from the 1749 edition author = Henry Fielding illustrator = cover artist = country = Britain language = English series =… …

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  • 29Geoffrey Chaucer — Chaucer redirects here. For other uses, see Chaucer (disambiguation). Geoffrey Chaucer …

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  • 30complaint —    A complaint is a genre of lyric poem in which a speaker bemoans his own lot or the general condition of society. The late Middle Ages saw four different varieties of complaint: In one type the speaker lamented the depravity of the world or of… …

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