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[US] Reno (NV) Weekly Gazette 24 Apr. 2/3: It is unfair for the newspapers in their reports of ministerial and other church trials to indulge in unsavory flings at prayer. The report usually says: [...] ‘Sister Biggs told Brother Hayne he was an old bible-backed, bug-eyed liar from Bitter creek,’ and winds up with ‘the doxology and benediction by Brother Myers’.
at bible-backed (adj.) under bibleback, n.
[US] Reno (NV) Weekly Gazette 24 Apr. 2/3: It is unfair for the newspapers in their reports of ministerial and other church trials to indulge in unsavory flings at prayer. The report usually says: [...] ‘Sister Biggs told Brother Hayne he was an old bible-backed, bug-eyed liar from Bitter creek,’ and winds up with ‘the doxology and benediction by Brother Myers.’.
at bug-eyed, adj.
[US] Reno (LV) Weekly Gazette and Stockman 16 Aug. 1/5: Another one of the girls on ‘easy street’ [...] got tired of her life and tried to end it last Wednesday with a dose of ‘yen she’ (dregs of opium).
at easy street, n.
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