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- noun Plural form of
collie . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
colly .
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Examples
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a good object-lesson, and so had called in the collies from the fields and compelled them to be present.
The Chinago 1909
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With her advanced and redesigned brain, she deduced my predicament and called the collies into my superiorly advanced laboratory - lab for short.
Damn Interesting Alan Bellows 2010
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The collies are the farmhands and the maremmas, including Bella, form their own little cabinet of homeland security.
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The collies are the farmhands and the maremmas, including Bella, form their own little cabinet of homeland security.
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The crack of the stock-whip mingled continually with the barking of the "collies" and the bellowing and bleating of the cattle and sheep.
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Another trait, aggressiveness, was linked to metabolic rate, with docile dogs such as collies burning calories more slowly than territorial great danes, for instance (more than 10,000 years ago, but Careau doubts that long lifespan or rapid metabolism were selected on purpose.
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The other guests, also pushed back like sheep by the uniformed border collies, stood by quietly, too.
A Stitch Before Dying Anne Canadeo 2011
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Two Border collies and a handler have been chasing geese on land and in a canoe.
The Goose May Be Cooked This Year Sumathi Reddy 2011
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But Rose is about to get enough work for 30 border collies.
Jon Katz's new dog-centered novel, 'Rose in a Storm' Yvonne Zipp 2010
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They're pretty awful in retrospect, but they got me interested in collies, and before the dust had settled Carol and I bred and exhibited 23 collie champions (naming most of them after science fiction stories and characters).
MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves 2009
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