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  • You've only got to mention Miss Vi to her even now to have her r'ar right up on her hind legs.

    The Fifth Ace Douglas Grant

  • "Leave dis Pullman boy take a r'ar at de clickers."

    Lady Luck Hugh Wiley

  • "Kingdom come, is yo 'gittin' ter de pint when yo 'kin see sich gwines-on an' not r'ar right spang up an '_sass_ dat' oman?"

    Peggy Stewart at School

  • He might r'ar up for this or that, but he'll never change his cherished hopes for his son ....

    The Mysterious Rider Zane Grey 1905

  • Starling had permitted the selling agents to instruct him briefly in the operation of the new bus, though with lordly condescension, for it was his conviction that a man who could tame wild horses and drive anything that wore hair could by no means fail to guide a bit of machinery that wouldn't r'ar and run even if a newspaper blew across its face.

    The Wrong Twin Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • "Now, chile, but I git up in de gallery, en when ole Uncle Josh gins ter holler en bawl en r'ar en charge, I fling dat blaze er light right on his bal 'haid, en I set him afire sho's you bawn!"

    The Leopard's Spots [selections] 1902

  • And your husband, ma'am, what he says is good, but he don't r'ar and pitch enough.

    A Circuit Rider's Wife Corra Harris 1902

  • "It's always easy enough to r'ar up in this world and blart that things ain't so," snapped Hiram, with some heat.

    The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900

  • Was there ever a time that he'd asked us to do this or that, that every man in reach didn't r'ar up and jump down his throat?

    Red Saunders' Pets and Other Critters Henry Wallace Phillips 1899

  • That cavalcade, erstwhile so gala an 'buoyant, drags itself wearily homeward, the exhausted dogs in the r'ar walkin' stiff an 'sore like their laigs is wood.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887

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