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Challenge: Write a (short?) poem with this kind of verbal noun in it (ex: ahunting, awassailing).
3rd entry of the day, it's crazy. dudemanflab 2007
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America is lying there - just as prostrate as Nick Berg is lying down in that video after he was thrown on his side, his hands tied behind his back, while his hooded assassin begins to methodically saw off his head at the neck, with ahunting knife, as the dark-red blood gushes from his jugular, covering the floor, his face turning to a waxen mask as his life ebbs away within seconds.
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If they come ahunting this misshapen blotch, we can at least know it once when they are beyond that impenetrable wall of theirs.
Flight in Yiktor Norton, Andre 1986
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And, O monarch, this also is an excellent season for thy son to go ahunting!
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Outwardly, he may pour forth a verbal barrage of condemnation, but if he believes he can save her immortal soul, ahunting he goes.
The Necessity of Atheism David Marshall Brooks
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Not only do these great birds serve as food, but they play the part of decoys when their owners go ahunting.
The Bird Study Book Thomas Gilbert Pearson
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If fed entirely on plenty of raw meat and water they are extremely gentle and affectionate and never wish to leave you; the reason that many Persian cats -- who still possess some of the qualities of wild animals -- grow savage and leave their homes, being principally because of the lack of raw meat which causes them to go ahunting to procure it for themselves.
Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894
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where or thereabouts they found the great commander of these parts with his Indians ahunting, who received them, civilly, and showed the ruins of Sir Walter Raleigh's fort, from which I received a sure token of their being there.
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"Let us be thankful for small favors and hope that they do a lot of that screeching when they go ahunting.
The Stars Are Ours Norton, Andre 1954
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"Let us be thankful for small favors and hope that they do a lot of that screeching when they go ahunting.
The Stars Are Ours Norton, Andre 1954
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