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fagin
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Fagin may refer to: Fagin , a character in Oliver Twist Dan Fagin Ronald Fagin Fagin's theorem
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
character in "Oliver Twist" (1838); used for "trainer of thieves" by 1842.
Usage examples of fagin.
Then Fagin pushed hard for some sort of gas attack, which Banish rejected as well, saying that the Abies family might have gas masks themselves and, if so, the agents and marshals going in would be facing a slaughter.
They nodded at each other cursorily, then Fagin stepped off and scanned the clearing again, as though looking for a good place to spit.
SAC Perkins and Deputy Marshal Fagin remained there watching him walk away.
Perkins recognized this as Bureau negotiator standard operating procedure, though for Fagin it probably pegged Banish as a coward.
Marshals Service Special Operations Group under Deputy Supervisor Fagin will arrange perimeter cabin surveillance and containment, as well as staging-area security.
Perkins anticipated a blowout, but Fagin was remarkably self-contained.
Banish was done and reaching for his raincoat, inviting Fagin to follow him outside.
Another moment of pure silence, then Banish lowered the bullhorn and nodded across to Fagin, who hand-signaled his group to go.
The cabin showed no sign of life as the ten-legged creature backed away through the trees as slowly and as cautiously as it had approached, past the first twisted dog carcass, past the second, finally reentering the thickened wood where Fagin stood covering them from behind.
They were working at various stations around the cabin perimeter, making a lot of noise, clanking things, and Fagin was pretty sure he knew what they were up to, and it pissed him off.
It reeked of meddling and preferential treatment and string-pulling and sticky fingers and all the things about the Bureau that Fagin fucking despised.
A man in an FBI windbreaker was kneeling in the dark at the edge of the kill zone and Fagin thought at first that it was Banish, but upon closer examination saw that it was someone else, an agent in headphones mounting a microphone gun with a parabolic dish.
Blood was near enough to the black van earlier in the day to hear Banish and Fagin and the sound man entertaining potential strategies.
Banish shot down each proposal similarly, with stubborn reason, and there was nothing Fagin or the sound man could do to change his mind.
Blood started toward them fast, but before he could get there Fagin was standing between the two men.