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  • He started away, wholly cowed, whining like a quill-pig, bewailing his luck.

    The Landloper Holman Day 1900

  • I wished to see what the dogs would do with him, and what the "quill-pig" would do with the dogs.

    The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers John Burroughs 1879

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