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Letter "S" » scalped
«The 10 Frenchmen journeyed to America despite warnings from their mothers that they would be mugged within 5 minutes of their arrival in New York and mowed down by gangsters in Chicago -- provided, of course, that they were not scalped by Indians along the way [or captured by] crowds of American women waiting at the airport to get their hands on a Frenchman.»
Author: William E. Geist
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Keywords:
American Indian,
arrival,
crowds,
Frenchman,
Frenchmen,
gangster,
gangsters,
Indians,
journeyed,
mow,
mowed,
mowing,
mows,
mug,
mugged,
scalp,
scalped,
the Airport,
warnings
«But God shall wound the head of his enemies, and the hairy scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.»
«PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
Journalist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
dupe,
duped,
dupes,
exploiting,
locate,
located,
locating,
organ,
phrenology,
scalp,
scalped,
The Organ
«The guest at the lower end of the middle couch, with three hairs on his bald head and his scalp streaked with pigment, who is digging in his big mouth with a toothpick, is a fraud, Aefulanus, He has no teeth»
Author: Marcus Aurelius
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Keywords:
bald-headed,
bald,
big hair,
digging,
pigment,
pigments,
scalp,
scalped,
streak,
streaked,
streaks,
toothpick,
toothpicks
«In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel, and red men scalped each other by the Great Lakes of North America.»