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  • Yes | No | Report from corry aldridge wrote 1 year 28 weeks ago baloo is a perfect name for your shorthair

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  • Free rogue Mountone till Dew Mild Well to corry awen and glowry!

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • In the Borders they call all left-handed people 'keg-handed, "' car-handed, "or 'corry-fisted." "

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

  • With the wind for their way and the corry for their hame

    Isle of Skye 1973

  • It looked as if every glen and every gully, every corry and eas on that mountainous coast was spending its breath upon the old sea, the poor old sea that would be let alone to dream and rest, but must suffer the humours of the mischievous winds.

    Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro

  • The men we had seen going down in the airt of Tynree were the lad's gathering, and they would have lost us but for the beetle-browed rogue, who, guessing our route through the hills to Dalness, had run before them, and, unhampered by arms or years, had reached the house of Dalness a little before we came out of our journey in swamp and corry.

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • I think we'd better act on the principles of these corry-lines, else

    Philosopher Jack 1859

  • This slid down the slopes, and from every valley, strath, and corry, south of Glen Spean, glaciers were poured into that glen.

    Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856

  • Landseer's exhibited -- a wild Highland corry, with a startled herd of red deer -- is to be found in the British Institution.

    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852 Various 1841

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