"to bilk" with object not a person

[Wilson Gray]

On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 4:52 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Isn't "bilking your lodgings" just another way of saying "bilking your
> landlord"? I think you will find that every non-person ends up being
> an institution representing people.

Quite so.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
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