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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
estray .
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Examples
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Left to roam, the estrayed cattle would eventually die of old age, benefiting no one.
Stands a Calder Man Janet Dailey 1983
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Left to roam, the estrayed cattle would eventually die of old age, benefiting no one.
Stands a Calder Man Janet Dailey 1983
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Left to roam, the estrayed cattle would eventually die of old age, benefiting no one.
Mistletoe and Holly Janet Dailey 1982
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Left to roam, the estrayed cattle would eventually die of old age, benefiting no one.
Mistletoe and Holly Janet Dailey 1982
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Left to roam, the estrayed cattle would eventually die of old age, benefiting no one.
Mistletoe and Holly Janet Dailey 1982
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Left to roam, the estrayed cattle would eventually die of old age, benefiting no one.
Mistletoe and Holly Janet Dailey 1982
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It was so bright that it might be a star estrayed, a tiny star and venturesome, gone from the keeping of the maternal moon and wandered into the wood behind Doom to tangle in the hazel-boughs.
Doom Castle Neil Munro
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There is besides a constant outpouring from the dark abodes of estrayed and benighted souls, for the all-embracing love of our Father-Mother reaches even the horribly suffering lunatics, made so by their selfish, vicious lives here on earth.
Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul Anna Bishop Scofield
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But of her, who sitteth still and inactive, and doth not exercise those intellectual powers, it may be said "she is of an estrayed soul," and "hath buried her talent."
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North-Western Provinces, and occasionally a tiger estrayed from Central
Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900
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