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  • My father instantly called Wagtail, and sent him after her.

    The Vicar's Daughter George MacDonald 1864

  • Jessica Taylor, 26, who runs Wagtail farm, was checking her stock early in the morning when she noticed smoke coming from an apparently improvised campsite in a well-hidden spot surrounded by trees.

    Raoul Moat: Police scour woodland around Rothbury for fugitive gunman 2010

  • Birds with restricted range include the spotted redshank (Tringa erythropus), Jananese Robin (Erithacus akahige), Bull-headed Strike (Lanius bucephalus), and the Forest Wagtail (Motacilla lutea).

    South Sakhalin-Kurile mixed forests 2008

  • In one of them, there was a gang of smugglers who went by the names Yan, Tan, Tethera, Methera, Pimp, and so on up to Wagtail, Tarry-Diddle, and Den, IIRC.

    languagehat.com: YAN TAN TETHERA. 2005

  • Bragwell took up the cudgels for the doctor, and undertook to rid him of her importunity for half-a-guinea; upon which Wagtail, with great eagerness, pulled out his purse, and put it into the hand of his friend, who, taking half a piece out of it, gave it to the plaintiff, and bade her thank God for her good fortune.

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

  • Wagtail introduces me to set of fine Gentlemen with whom I spend the Evening at a Tavern — our Conversation — the Characters of my new Companions — the Doctor is roasted — our Issue of our Debauch

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

  • Wagtail introduces me to set of fine Gentlemen with whom I spend the Evening at a Tavern — our Conversation — the Characters of my new Companions — the Doctor is roasted — our Issue of our Debauch

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 1721-1771 2004

  • He had he sooner pronounced these words, than Wagtail exclaimed in a rapture,

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

  • Wagtail for his opinion of the character in question, resolved to compare their accounts, allowing for the prejudice of each, and to form my judgment upon both, without adhering strictly to either.

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

  • Wagtail introduces me to set of fine Gentlemen with whom I spend the Evening at a Tavern — our Conversation — the Characters of my new Companions — the Doctor is roasted — our Issue of our Debauch

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

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