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shuffles his responsibilities upon my shoulders
He was always the most inconsiderate of mortals; and now, without the least warning, he shuffles his responsibilities upon my shoulders."
— from The Maker of Rainbows, and Other Fairy-tales and Fables by Richard Le Gallienne

spoken heaped reproaches upon me saying
But she held her place firmly, and, in better English than she had yet spoken, heaped reproaches upon me, saying that "no man worthy of the name would invade the privacy of a woman's personal belongings."
— from Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman by Willie Walker Caldwell

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