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turnpike effect

Didn't he write in those idiotic broadsheets that anyone, 'whoever it might be, should be dragged to the lockup by his hair'?

War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

) Then he remembered how he had spent a night in the lockup for disorderly conduct in the street.

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context

The fight concerned a trunk and ended by the doctor's being escorted to the vil- lage lockup.

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Lockwood, Charles A.
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