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Usage examples of looie.

At any rate—I took my money from the Guinea Company shares, and took a large position in Amsterdam-grain just before King Looie bid the price up!

Now this wasn’t Jack’s first King, as he’d seen King Looie more than once during French military parades.

But King Looie was only play-acting, he was like a whoreson actor in a Southwark theatre, got up in a gaudy costume, acting the way he imagined that a warrior King might act.

He went to Holland to parley with William of Orange, who was thought to know more’n anyone about staving off the Catholic hordes, as he’d stopped King Looie at the cost of turning half his country into a moat.

By the time he passed under it, dawn-light was glancing prettily off its new stone-work: King Looie as a primordial naked Hercules leaning insouciantly on a tree-sized club, naked except for a periwig the size of a cloud, and a lion skin slung over one arm so that a flapping corner just covered the royal Penis.

On one side of its pedestal, a relief of Looie personally spearheading a cavalry charge across a canal, or perhaps that was the Rhine, into a horizontal forest of muskets.

On the other, Looie on the throne with a queue of Kings and Emperors of Europe waiting, crowns in hand, to kneel down and kiss his high-heeled booties.

But after a while, it would bend around to the south, and they would cross the green before Les Invalides—surrounded by its own wall and moat—and arrive at the Champs de Mars where King Looie would be, with all of his pomp, having ridden up from Versailles to inspect his troops—which, in those pre-Martinet days, basically meant counting them.

In the center was a statue of King Looie’s dear old pop, Looie the Thirteenth—on horseback, naturally.

Paris: King Looie has secretly married Mademoiselle de Maintenon, and the Jesuits have his ear now.

Nevertheless, with the looie glowering menacingly at him, he whips out a bottle of single-malt Scotch he bought on the black market, puts it on the table next to the man's almost finished bottle of Canadian Club.

Maybe he should step down as looie, let someone else deal with this crap.