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v. - Disable by drugging; Take away to an undisclosed location against their will and usually in order to extract a ransom; Make off with belongings of others; Deprive of by deceit.

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  • nobble the race horses
  • One of my main correspondents in the nobble is a boy of 11 at the beginning of the book -- by the end he has turned 14.
  • I have 24 days, starting today, and 25 new letters to write (da nobble is epistolary, dig?)
  • Clarke uses a tactic that I'm using in da nobble, which is putting some essential information into the footnotes.
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