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Ginny went with the boots -- a dyke's best friend are her boots.
MORE FROM GINNY BATES -- NO U-HAULS, JUST BORROW A FRIEND'S TRUCK Maggie Jochild 2007
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His headline would be something more along the lines of "You know, that dyke's going straight to hell, but she makes a reasonable point for a lesbian."
Warrington Editorial: God Bless Kathy Y. Wilson Nathaniel Livingston 2005
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* Of course I'm not really a dyke, but I was certainly wearing a dyke's uniform that night.
whitehelmet Diary Entry whitehelmet 2004
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We're here. and how fitting that we get a cute dyke's bed.
fragile-liar Diary Entry fragile-liar 2002
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They would go through Alkmaar and over the Afsluitdijk, he explained, and regaled her with stories about the Spanish Occupation, and when they reached the great sluices of the dyke, he explained exactly how they were built; the Rolls had eaten up the dyke's twenty-mile length before he had finished.
Cruise To A Wedding Neels, Betty 1974
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"Say me, Joram, traitor -- loathsome to me in heart -- why falleth this wall to the ground, say me why it happeneth that the wall falleth, what men may find at the dyke's bottom?"
Roman de Brut. English Layamon
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A man fled over the marsh before an avenger who, when the quarry tripped on the dyke's edge, buried a knife between his shoulders; and, as he struck, a woman lit the lamp in the window of the island farm, to tell the murdered man that it was safe to come.
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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Alone on a dyke's trenched edge, and afar from the blossoming wildwood's verge,
A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol VI Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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President Hu Jintao and premier Wen Jiabao called for "all-out efforts to combat floods and save lives" following the dyke's collapse,
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Near shore wind-farm lays emphasis on dyke's development:
Green Diary 2010
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