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toady
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  • I'm no man's toady.†  (source)
  • All the bugs and toady-frogs shut right up, they quit chasing and biting each other 'cause this had to be the loudest whistle they'd ever heard too.†  (source)
  • Matthew Wood, after baiting John with fierce questions that threw the young student into confusion, had scornfully labeled him a "young toady with no mind of his own."†  (source)
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  • But what was funny as heck was Grandpa with that bruised, swelled-up nose, the big knot like a horn on his forehead, the black eyes like a dern raccoon's mask, the scab over one eye like a sword slash on a pirate, the itchy three-day sprouting of gray whiskers — and Miss Love gazing at him like he was Prince Charming come to the costume ball dressed up as a toady frog.†  (source)
  • Halfway to Miami International, comfortably away from the switchboard where Queems or Queems's toadies were known to listen in, Hallorann stopped at a shopping center Laundromat and called United Air Lines.†  (source)
  • "I deal in information," he says to the smarmy, toadying pseudojournalist who "interviews" him.†  (source)
  • And they stood, under similar orders, at all sorts of elections; and they turned out of their own seats, on the shortest notice and the most unreasonable terms, to let in other men; and they fetched and carried, and toadied and jobbed, and corrupted, and ate heaps of dirt, and were indefatigable in the public service.†  (source)
  • Within its surface, he did not see his own face but that of a toady-faced goblin with a forelock of black hair and a lipless mouth that stretched from ear to ear.†  (source)
  • I'm a foot from Marcus, my fists hungry for his flesh, when two of his toadies, Thaddius and Julius, grab me from behind, wrenching my arms back.†  (source)
  • that toadying ignoramus!†  (source)
  • Like John o'Gaunt his name is dear to him, as dear as the coat and crest he toadied for, on a bend sable a spear or steeled argent, honorificabilitudinitatibus, dearer than his glory of greatest shakescene in the country.†  (source)
  • I knew she thought I was a toady boy, but maybe having survived a brush with Saint Dane gave me a little more credibility.†  (source)
  • I asked, imagining the sneers and the laughter, the adulation of the toadies, the scepticism of the professional poet.†  (source)
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