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McGee says that the Corby name will likely also not be used in Thailand "because in the Thai language, I believe 'corby' is a rude word".
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McGee says that the Corby name will likely also not be used in Thailand "because in the Thai language, I believe 'corby' is a rude word".
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McGee says that the Corby name will likely also not be used in Thailand "because in the Thai language, I believe 'corby' is a rude word".
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President Obama has done more in his short time as President than any other President in my lifetime – he will get it done. corby
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It may seem like a sensible thing to do: living is cheap, food and ironing done for you, minimal effort on household chores thanks to the dishwasher/tumbledryer/corby trouser press, but when has life ever been that rosy?
…moving back in with your parents at my age. « Sven’s guide to… 2005
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Current Music: crown me king- "the corby of goblins that rule the gulag"10 gunslingers | crown me king
mordicai: crown me king! mordicai 2003
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From early dawn till nightfall the welkin rings with the harsh caw of the house-crow, the deeper note of the black crow or corby, the tinkling music of the bulbuls, the cheery _keky_, _keky_, _kek_,
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
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From each black tarn I looked to see a scaly reptile rise, from every fearsome cave a corby emerge.
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For some are cold as clabber and the corby picks the brains of them,
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The nest of the kite, like that of the corby, is an untidy mass of sticks and twigs placed conspicuously in a lofty tree.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916
bilby commented on the word corby
I will go with my Father a-ploughing
To the Green Field by the sea,
And the rooks and corbies and seagulls
Will come flocking after me.
I will sing to the patient horses
With the lark in the shine of the air,
And my Father will sing the Plough-Song
That blesses the cleaving share.
- Joseph Campbell, 'I Will Go With My Father A-Ploughing'.
November 12, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word corby
A raven. --Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841.
gorby
May 19, 2011