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  • a  not suitable for food

  • The English country gentleman galloping after a foxthe unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
  • Classic examples of the unspeakable pursuing the uneatable, the hunters blithely pooh-pooh Connery's warning that the Injuns are on a scalptingling expedition.
  • In Calcutta the black sweep is wandering with crumbs in his eyes, touching the untouchable, and eating the uneatable.
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  • David Downie in Seattle Post Intelligencer
    Of the Ile de la Cité, that timeless island in the Seine that includes Notre Dame cathedral, Downie writes, "There are benches shaded by sycamores and weeping willows, lazy anglers of uneatable bottom fish, sunbathers and moon gazers, picnickers...

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