Richard Head in his Life and Death of Mother Shipton (1684) says, "the body was of indifferent height, her head was long, with sharp fiery eyes, her nose of an incredible and unproportionate length, having many crooks and turnings, adorned with many strange pimples of divers colours, as red, blue and dirt, which like vapours of brimstone gave such a lustre to her affrighted spectators in the dead time of the night, that one of them confessed several times in my hearing that her nurse needed no other light to assist her in her duties" Allowing for the absurdity of this account, it certainly seems (if any reliance is to be placed on the so-called authorities) that the child was phenomenally plain and deformed. [Please select]
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Talk about crooks, eh. [Please select]
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"You crooks'll have to pay for this when you're caught." [Please select]
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"Yet the German government and the crooks seem convinced, too, that there's something worth looking for." [Please select]
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"We are pretty well informed as to all crooks who come here," was the reply. [Please select]
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I might have known those crooks had a final shot in their locker. [Please select]
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"Well, there's a club downtown," said John, "where a lot of these petty crooks hang out." [Please select]
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