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pork houses in Louisville in putting
Mr. W. told me that women are employed at the pork houses in Louisville, in putting up hogs' feet, to send to New Orleans.
— from The Employments of Women: A Cyclopædia of Woman's Work by Virginia Penny

practical humorist is less in point
It is true, she was droll enough, in a literary and artistic view, to make one's fortune in a magazine or story; but, when one had a house to manage, a practical humorist is less in point than in some other places.
— from Palmetto-Leaves by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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