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Well, I grew up in a world where a mouse was a furry rodent, a twitter was a bird-call, and Katharine Lee Bates, as far as I knew back then, was merely a dormitory.
Lynn Sherr Wellesley Speech: 'Remember Our History As You Make Your Own' The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Well, I grew up in a world where a mouse was a furry rodent, a twitter was a bird-call, and Katharine Lee Bates, as far as I knew back then, was merely a dormitory.
Lynn Sherr Wellesley Speech: 'Remember Our History As You Make Your Own' 2010
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It's usually little kids and I usually respond to their bird-call like squawk with an mimic cry "Child!"
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It's usually little kids and I usually respond to their bird-call like squawk with an mimic cry "Child!"
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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“Such self-conceit — and Heaven knows we have the root of it in ourselves also — is the very daughter of self-will, and of that loud crying out about I, and me, and mine, which is the very bird-call for all devils, and the broad road which leads to death.”
Westward Ho! 2007
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When I get home, I hear the shower running in the master bedroom, the metallic bird-call sound in the pipes.
Bulletproof Girl Quinn Dalton 2005
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When I get home, I hear the shower running in the master bedroom, the metallic bird-call sound in the pipes.
Bulletproof Girl Quinn Dalton 2005
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When I get home, I hear the shower running in the master bedroom, the metallic bird-call sound in the pipes.
Bulletproof Girl Quinn Dalton 2005
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Another bird-call, this time from behind and to the right.
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My able assistant, Miss Emma, will now favor us with her bird-call imitations.
Caddie Woodlawn’s Family Carol Ryrie Brink 2000
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