lustworthy

[Wilson Gray]

This time, try shooting it with a silver bullet.

-Wilson



On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:39 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> An appraiser on _Antiques Roadshow_ describes some antique silver as
> "lustworthy."
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> 400,000 Raw Googlits.  Google Books seems to find it in 1972 (used of
> females), then nothing for a long time.
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> JL
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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