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  • Herself had to sit up an 'laugh in the bed and be plaguin' me wit 'her tarkin'.

    The Queen's Twin and Other Stories Sarah Orne Jewett 1879

  • Zachy Jackson! which there ain't no man, -- tarkin 'of' orses, fit to touch 'im, they'll tell yer and not far wrong either. "

    Fortitude Hugh Walpole 1912

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