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Don't let him slip through your fingers for a day; hunt him from lodging to lodging, from tavern to tavern, into jail and out of jail--tantivy, yoicks, hark-forward!— Birds of Prey
Another rides tantivy, or full trot, To show much gravity he matters not.— Works of John Bunyan — Complete
He says that an ambitious tantivy,[2] missing of his towering hopes of preferment in Ireland, is come over to vent his spleen on the late Ministry, etc. I'll tantivy him with a vengeance.— The Journal to Stella
Another rides tantivy, or full trot,— Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
The wild tantivy boy had vanished, and the sobriquet of "Tavern Knight" was fast becoming— The Tavern Knight

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