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Oh, they just broke their ‘ryle’ meaning two easer trailers and then final trailer
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"Never see a sailor of the ryle navy stretch his legs afore?"
Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea George Manville Fenn 1870
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Now the Blue Noses are like that are gall; they have grown up, and grown up in ignorance of many things they had'nt ought not to know; and its as hard to teach grown up folks as it is to break a six year old horse; and they do ryle one's temper so -- they act so ugly that it tempts one sometimes to break their confounded necks -- its near about as much trouble as its worth.
The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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"We says, sir," he began, addressing the major -- "I mean they says as we -- I mean they ain't fighting men, never having 'llsted or gone in the ryle navy; but in a case like this they will -- no, we will, for of course
Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle George Manville Fenn 1870
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She's another schooner about the same cut as this, and though she can see us, she isn't showing us her heels, for she don't know there's a man-o'-war's crew aboard, headed by the smartest young midshipman in the ryle navy. "
The Black Bar George Manville Fenn 1870
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