“They claimed that the old man had a knuckle-duster on his right, which is ridiculous and a dirty lie. He had it on his left.”
"The Pit of the Serpent" (1929)
Context: The men on the Dauntless have disliked the Sea Girl's crew ever since our skipper took their captain to a cleaning on the wharfs of Zanzibar--them being narrow-minded that way. They claimed that the old man had a knuckle-duster on his right, which is ridiculous and a dirty lie. He had it on his left.
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Source: Think (1999), Chapter Three, Free Will, p. 106