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Green-yellow, bursts from the copse the laughing yaffle;— Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
A missel-thrush, a yaffle ----— Poems: New and Old
When the crying yaffle goes— Georgian Poetry 1918-19
If a corpse be kept over a Sunday another death will occur before the week is out; should a big bumble-bee enter the window, a guest may be expected; and when the woodpecker, commonly called the yaffle, laughs, they say the rain is coming.— English Villages
From above the hedges the sleepy cows looked down; a yaffle laughed a field or two away; in the sycamores, which had come out before their time, the bees hummed.— Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works

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