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muttered All right keep your
And Tim muttered, "All right, keep your hair on, Ben!"
— from War and the Weird by Forbes Phillips

make a roosh knock you
“Elephants is what they call ’telligent beasts, and you don’t know but what that there annymile is a-hearing every word you say and only waiting till I’m gone to make a roosh, knock you down, and do his war-dance all over you.”
— from Glyn Severn's Schooldays by George Manville Fenn

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