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Dyke Darrel the Railroad Detective choose

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[US] A.F. Pinkerton Dyke Darrel 39: You’re going to die, Sam, sure’s shooting.
at sure as shooting under sure as..., phr.
[US] A.F. Pinkerton Dyke Darrel 78: I’m pretty much broke up since I came out of the bastile.
at bastille, n.
[US] A.F. Pinkerton Dyke Darrel 85: Dyke Darrel sank a bleeding and insensible mass to the floor. [...] ‘I’ve fixed him, Professor,’ growled Nick Browser.
at fix, v.1
[US] A.F Pinkerton Dyke Darrel 64: The first one requested him to handcuff the prisoner. [...] ‘This is going too far,’ he said in a vexed tone. ‘If you attempt to put the irons on me, I’ll make you trouble’.
at irons, n.
[US] A.F. Pinkerton Dyke Darrel 93: We have two of your friends in limbo.
at limbo, n.
[US] A.F. Pinkerton Dyke Darrel 28: A man had shadowed the detective since his departure from the railway office.
at shadow, v.
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