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  • It came boring out of the east like some ribald satellite of the coming sun howling and bellowing in the distance and the long light of the headlamp running through the tangled mesquite brakes and creating out of the night the endless fenceline down the dead straight right of way and sucking it back again wire and post mile on mile into the darkness after where the boilersmoke disbanded slowly along the faint new horizon and the sound came lagging and he stood still holding his hat in his hands in the passing ground-shudder watching it till it was gone.†  (source)
  • The name arose from a ribald joke which played on the C.E.T. initials and called the delegates "Cranks-Effing-Turners†  (source)
  • On the surface, it was a ribald little tune about a donkey who wanted to be an arcanist.†  (source)
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  • Bigwig strolled over to Pipkin, muttering a ribald Owsla lampoon.†  (source)
  • Fleeing before it was a crowd of blear-eyed, drunken, and diseased wretches, male and female, half naked, ghastly, with painted cheeks, cursing and uttering ribald jests as they drifted along.†  (source)
  • 16 LUCIANA He found Luciana sitting alone at a table in the Allied officers' night club, where the drunken Anzac major who had brought her there had been stupid enough to desert her for the ribald company of some singing comrades at the bar.†  (source)
  • There will doubtless be thousands of ribald failures, but in the world's history artists have always been drawn where they are welcome and well treated.†  (source)
  • Someone suggested they drink to that, but Pickett reminded one and all soulfully of his oath to Sallie, schoolgirl Sallie, who was half his age, and that brought up a round of ribald kidding that should have insulted Pickett but didn't.†  (source)
  • And again, again, again Sped by guests carousing All the ribald catches burst Right into the bedroom, While one wench, as white as snow, To the calls and whistles Once more did her peahen dance Gliding, with hips swinging, Head tossed high And right hand waving, Dancing fast on cobbles— Just a peahen, peahen!†  (source)
  • It was he who had come in with the remark considered ribald; now he was trying to get out the other way.†  (source)
  • De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period IF IT MADE any real sense—and it doesn't even begin to—I think I might be inclined to dedicate this account, for whatever it's worth, especially if it's the least bit ribald in parts, to the memory of my late, ribald stepfather, Robert Agadganian, Jr. Bobby—as everyone, even I, called him—died in 1947, surely with a few regrets, but without a single gripe, of thrombosis.†  (source)
  • He could tell, with apparent sincerity and approval, stories of courage and honor and virtue and love in the odd places he had been, and follow them with ribald stories of coldest cynicism.†  (source)
  • Gotohell!" she said comically, her wrath loosened suddenly by a ribald and exasperated smile.†  (source)
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