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  • Stingaree stars Irene Dunne as an aspiring opera singer who falls for a music-loving bandit called Stingaree (Richard Dix) who disguises himself as a composer in order to help her.

    unknown title 2009

  • Stingaree stars Irene Dunne as an aspiring opera singer who falls for a music-loving bandit called Stingaree (Richard Dix) who disguises himself as a composer in order to help her.

    unknown title 2009

  • Stingaree stars Irene Dunne as an aspiring opera singer who falls for a music-loving bandit called Stingaree (Richard Dix) who disguises himself as a composer in order to help her.

    unknown title 2009

  • Stingaree Point; and that fish is still called Stingaree by the people along the Chesapeake Bay.

    The end of an era, 1899

  • "Stingaree" sounds so implausible (though it really is a manta ray - I checked!).

    The WELL: Sugaree Robert Hunter 2008

  • Horning's "Stingaree", by contrast, seems to be everywhere, in several editions, and cheap.

    The Project Gutenberg FAQ 2002 Jim Tinsley

  • Stingaree is almost cognate with stingray, is it not? deadsongs. vue.193

    The WELL: Sugaree Robert Hunter 2008

  • People assume the idea was cadged from Elizabeth Cotten's Sugaree, but, in fact, the song was originally titled 'Stingaree,' which is a poisonous South Sea manta.

    The WELL: Sugaree Robert Hunter 2008

  • A successful book in rather the same vein as Raffles is Stingaree. [back] 2. 1945.

    Raffles and Miss Blandish 1944

  • Ma Pettengill said that if Uncle Henry was aiming to put it on the market in quantity production he had ought to name it the Stingaree brand, because it was sure some stuff, making for malevolence even to the lengths of matricide, if that's what killing your mother is called.

    Ma Pettengill Harry Leon Wilson 1903

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