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Not one person in a thousand will believe Im a real, bona-fide, dyed-in-the-wool widow!
AINSLEE'S MAGAZINE, VOLUME 16, NO. 3, OCTOBER, 1905VARIOUS
For a genuine, all-round, dyed-in-the-wool separator of coin from its proud possessor, the train butcher is the limit.
TWENTY YEARS A DETECTIVE IN THE WICKEDEST CITY IN THE WORLDCLIFTON R. WOOLDRIDGE
Yes, were dyed-in-the-wool fans, admitted Bob, and told the operator something of their radio work.
THE RADIO BOYS AT MOUNTAIN PASSALLEN CHAPMAN
But he was, doubtless, an eccentric though an experienced and dyed-in-the-wool socialist who had lectured over half the globe.
GREENWICH VILLAGEANNA ALICE CHAPIN
It is a dyed-in-the-wool skilled workers' union, and has been such ever since its foundation forty-five years ago.
THE GREAT STEEL STRIKE AND ITS LESSONSWILLIAM Z. FOSTER
In thought it is a piece of dyed-in-the-wool old fogyism, but in form and literary style it is vigorous, jaunty, and amusing.
A HISTORY OF AMERICAN LITERATUREPERCY H. BOYNTON
Im not the Tenderfoot you brought out sixteen years ago; Im a dyed-in-the-wool Westerner now.
A TENDERFOOT BRIDECLARICE E. RICHARDS
Nothing has pleased me so much, in a long time, as to see him such a dead-in-earnest, dyed-in-the-wool officer as he is now.
UNCLE SAM'S BOYS AS LIEUTENANTSH. IRVING HANCOCK
You're the only seasoned, all around, dyed-in-the-wool, genuwine cowpuncher in the whole outfit.
THE PONY RIDER BOYS IN TEXASFRANK GEE PATCHIN
That his brother-in-law Schurz should wish to represent him as a dyed-in-the-wool Austrian is only natural.
TYPES OF WELTSCHMERZ IN GERMAN POETRYWILHELM ALFRED BRAUN

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