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I attempted to knock him in the head with my hatchet, I saw I had a good high holt on him so I stepped up closer to him -- when the darn skunk made a leap at my windsucker; the trap chain broke and he lit on my left arm and got busy eating meat.
Black Beaver The Trapper George Edward Lewis
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There is no ground for identifying Chapman's 'windsucker' with Shakespeare (cf. Wyndham, p. 255).
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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Chapman in the preface to his translation of the _Iliads_ (1611) denounces without mentioning any name 'a certain envious windsucker that hovers up and down, laboriously engrossing all the air with his luxurious ambition, and buzzing into every ear my detraction. '
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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He has been stabled since a 4 yr old next to a chronic windsucker, a cribber and opposite a weaver.
unknown title 2009
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