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  • I am not used to being bilked.†  (source)
  • "I thought you were dying," I said, conscious then, as I had been ever since I arrived, of the predominating emotion of vexation, rather than of relief, that I had been bilked of my expectations of a grand tragedy.†  (source)
  • He couldn't urge any man to inform against him — that would be tempting him to sin — but at the same time if there was an informer here, there was no reason why the wretched creature should be bilked of his reward.†  (source)
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  • —and mind you, keep you ON wailing, and abate not till we bilk him of his penny, else shall you rue it.†  (source)
  • You larn that go off of they there Frenchy bilks?†  (source)
  • "I promise you," answered Nightingale, "I don't intend to bilk my lodgings; but I have a private reason for not taking a formal leave."†  (source)
  • There was a cracker in Tulsa who bilked so many Negroes he could set up a Negro Bilking Company.†  (source)
  • There was a cracker in Tulsa who bilked so many Negroes he could set up a Negro Bilking Company.†  (source)
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