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Rudge

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Rudge
extorts to achieve personal ends. [Br. Lit.: Barnaby Rudge]
See : Blackmail

Rudge
murders master and gardener. [Br. Lit.: Barnaby Rudge]
See : Murder

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A dreadful day it was for young Dobbin when one of the youngsters of the school, having run into the town upon a poaching excursion for hardbake and polonies, espied the cart of Dobbin & Rudge, Grocers and Oilmen, Thames Street, London, at the Doctor's door, discharging a cargo of the wares in which the firm dealt.
[7] If the invasion of the legitimate sphere of prose in England by the spirit of poetry, weaker or stronger, has been something far deeper than is indicated by that tendency to write unconscious blank verse, which has made it feasible to transcribe about one-half of Dickens's otherwise so admirable Barnaby Rudge in blank-verse lines, a tendency (outdoing our old friend M.
I liked 'David Copperfield,' and 'Barnaby Rudge,' and
 
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