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  • Wants me to help corrall his bovines, which I do with a long Prfft! while swinging over the sub-continent.

    Knees of the Dragon Sylvia Petter 2011

  • But, there wasn't a Blue Jackets player in site to corrall the rebound before Michael Cammalleri grabbed it and slid a backhand pass to Kopitar for the tap-in goal on the King's second shot.

    USATODAY.com 2007

  • It might also be good to remember that usually the first thing a dictatorship does is take away the arms, the better to corrall and kill the ones that must be done away with.

    Is That Legal?: Gun Control, Campus Shootings, the Wild West, and Kent State 2007

  • They managed to corrall my sister, but just then Hooligan came trotting out of the woods and they got so excited about shooting a real live wolf, we managed to escape.

    ccfinlay: Eight Random Things ccfinlay 2007

  • One day I shall corrall all the bad parents and hang them by their toes while their kids throw rotten eggs at them, AND THEN leave them in the desert to fend for themselves.

    badbadzoot Diary Entry badbadzoot 2006

  • He kiss her cold lipps then the corrall more red that grows where she lyes in her waterie bed ah ah ah my loves dead and not a bell, but a tritons shell to ring her knell

    Digby 1998

  • Which is no good speech, because either he should haue sayd no more but a corrall lip, which had bene inough to declare the rednesse or els he should haue said a lip of corrall hew, and not a corrall lip of hew.

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

  • This tree shadowed the chariot: At euery corner of this triumphant chariot vpon the plaine where the vessell stood, was placed a candlesticke, of excellent workmanship, vpon three feet of red corrall, well liked of the ruder sort, resisting lightening and tempests, fauourable and preseruatiue to the bearer: The like were not found vnder the head of _Gorgon_ of Persia, nor in the Ocean _Erythreum_.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • The steale of one of the candlesticks was of white corrall, beloued of _Diana_, of

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • As the shadows are lengthening they reach Black Horse Creek, and corrall their wagons, kindle a fire, and are preparing for the night, when three or four Indians suddenly show themselves on the bluff and making friendly signals approach the camp.

    Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler

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