Talk:auctioneer

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Fighting or boxing move?[edit]

Saw this in Dickens today. Equinox 23:48, 14 June 2016 (UTC)Reply

  • 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House
    If Cook or Streaker went overhead after dark, we knew we should presently hear a bump on the ceiling; and this took place so constantly, that it was as if a fighting man were engaged to go about the house, administering a touch of his art which I believe is called The Auctioneer, to every domestic he met with.