colly

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A colly, with the sheep-dog's wooden bar suspended from its shaggy neck, lay at his feet.

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  • PC's give me the colly-wobbles, too What's the matter with precognition?" —  Vigorish
  • This place is enough to give one the colly-wabbles. —  The Easiest Way A Story of Metropolitan Life
  • 'But mark ye me, friend, that we may have nae colly-shangie afterhend, these are the fees that I always charge a swell that must have his lib-ken to himsell:--Thirty shillings a week for lodgings, and a guinea for garnish; half a guinea a week for a single bed; and I dinna get the whole of it, for I must gie half a crown out of it to Donald Laider that's in for sheep-stealing, that should sleep with you by rule, and he'll expect clean strae, and maybe some whisky beside. —  Guy Mannering — Complete
  • 'But mark ye me, friend, that we may have nae colly- shangie afterhend, these are the fees that I always charge a swell that must have his lib-ken to himsell:--Thirty shillings a week for lodgings, and a guinea for garnish; half a guinea a week for a single bed; and I dinna get the whole of it, for I must gie half a crown out of it to Donald Laider that's in for sheep-stealing, that should sleep with you by rule, and he'll expect clean strae, and maybe some whisky beside. —  Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete
  • And my dog, the noble black Scotch colly, what had become of him, I wondered? —  Vendetta: a story of one forgotten
 

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