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hole

n. a despised person; an asshole. (Usually objectionable. Also a term of address.) Sam is such a hole. He needs human being lessons.

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He laid into his work like a nigger, and the way he hove acorns into that hole for about two hours and a half was one of the most exciting and astonishing spectacles I ever struck.

The sufferer told him the whole circumstance, and says, 'Now yonder's the hole, and if you don't believe me, go and look for yourself.

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That it should have taken him three strokes to hole out from this promising position was unfortunate, but not fatal, for Gossett, who seemed suddenly to have fallen off his game, only reached the green in seven.

Gossett's drive was, however, worse; and the subsequent movement of the pair to the hole resembled more than anything else the manoeuvres of two men rolling peanuts with toothpicks as the result of an election bet.

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It seems that, as I lay in the dark of this cave, I saw you, Umslopogaas, a great man, gaunt and grey, stricken to the death, and the axe Groan-maker wavering aloft, and many a man dead upon a white and shimmering way, and about you the fair faces of white women; and you had a hole in your forehead, husband, on the left side.

Then she spoke and for the last time of all, and her voice came in a gasping whisper through the hole in the rock:--

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He might rise up with a rush and claw his way out of the hole to meet whatever threatened on the even footing above ground.

After a while the stranger sat down on the edge of the hole so that he could see into it, and rested the revolver on his knee.

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At short irregular intervals the hell-broth in the hole seemed as if boiling up.

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broke off the side of one of these knolls and toppled it into the hole where the Everhards made their refuge.

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Take them in through the hole," I says, "when we get it done.

Jim had plenty corn-cob pipes and tobacco; so we had a right down good sociable time; then we crawled out through the hole, and so home to bed, with hands that looked like they'd been chawed.

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All at once he fell head over heels in the dark, down a hole, and landed on a heap of very dirty rags.

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One has suggested, that if such a "leach-hole" should be found, its connection with the meadow, if any existed, might be proved by conveying some, colored powder or sawdust to the mouth of the hole, and then putting a strainer over the spring in the meadow, which would catch some of the particles carried through by the current.

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Neither of these lower rooms is lighted except from a hole in the floor of the third story; the room in which, as well as in that above it, is finished with compact smooth stonework, both having chimney-pieces, with an arch resting on triple clustered pillars.