chivy

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It was an eternal game of chivy or hide-and-seek, each person being by turn the hunter and the hunted.

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  • Like the bill that will probably emerge from Congress, the Massachusetts reform mainly relies on a combination of regulation and subsidies to chivy a mostly private system into providing near-universal coverage. —  ModerateVoters.org
  • It was an eternal game of chivy or hide-and-seek, each person being by turn the hunter and the hunted. —  The Divine Fire
  • And then, when this chivy was done, and their quick little hearts beat aloud with glory, it was pretty to see them all rally round the pump, as crafty as their betters, and watching with sly humor each other's readiness to begin again Then suddenly a sense of neglected duty would seize some little body with a hand to its side, nine times out of ten a girl, whose mother, perhaps, lay sick at home, and a stern idea of responsibility began to make the buckets clank. —  Erema — My Father's Sin
  • They are not in a hurry, nor "chivy" over their work either; the tides rise and fall slowly, and they work in correspondence. —  The Open Air
  • One man mounts a white pony, and galloping before the elephant, induces him, as he readily does firearms being unknown,--to charge and "chivy." —  First Footsteps in East Africa
 

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