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  • Guys on safari wearing safari jackets shoot things all day, things with funny names … like dik diks, teeny little antelopes with tiny Satan spikes on their lovely little heads.

    The tenth point of possession being this ... James Lloyd Davis 2011

  • And I'm just here to remind you how much more handsome and smart you'd be if you hadn't been shooting all of those .338 magnums at deer and dik diks!

    Nothing Works Better than a .338 2008

  • Why does the Academy love sucking the Coen's brothers diks?

    2010 Golden Globe Awards Nominees - Up in the Air Leads « FirstShowing.net 2009

  • Among the thorn and acacia trees of the hillsides one was certain of impalla, eland, diks-diks, and giraffes.

    The Land of Footprints Stewart Edward White 1909

  • Back behind of her there's steeples settin 'beside churches, an' wise women settin 'beside their doors, an' the sea settin 'above the land, an' ducks herdin 'wild in the diks' (he meant ditches).

    Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • 'Then 'twas all like the frogs in the diks peepin'; then 'twas all like the reeds in the diks clip-clappin '; an' then the great Tide-wave rummelled along the Wall, an 'she couldn't hear proper.

    Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Ah, but the diks an 'the water-lets, they twists the roads about as ravelly as witch-yarn on the spindles.

    Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • They'd dance on the nakid roads in the nakid daytime; they'd flash their liddle green lights along the diks, comin 'an' goin ', like honest smugglers.

    Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • 'That's because they've dreened the waters into the diks,' said Hobden.

    Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • 'The Marsh is justabout riddled with diks an' sluices, an 'tide-gates an' water-lets.

    Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900

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