ghillie

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Then dress it up in camo and ghillie with a little .50 cal rifle.

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  • “Then you can be my ghillie,” said Lady Jane, a ghillie being a Highland servant. —  Death of a Gossip—Hamish Macbeth 01—by MC Beaton
  • Fishing on a Scottish river with a policeman as ghillie was socially acceptable to her mind. —  Death of a Dentist
  • Twenty minutes later Astrid waited behind a tree, wishing for a war cloak, what Sam Aylward called a ghillie suit, of camouflage cloth sewn all over with loops for twigs and leaves. —  Map.html
  • Maybe it will surprise me but for now I have decided to study these subjects with a ghillie suit armed with liberal amounts of sneering contempt. —  Anime Nano!
  • I actually get where she's coming from with the shoes -- the ghillie brogues men wear with kilts have laces that wrap around the ankle. —  Tom and Lorenzo/Former Project Rungay Blog
 

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