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Examples
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Mary had dressed her in blue leotards and combed her blonde hair back, tying it into a fox-tail with blue ribbon.
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We find in them a quantity of small seed which we cannot sift out, and which we are obliged to send through the mill-stones; there are tares, fennel, vetches, hempseed, fox-tail, and a host of other weeds, not to mention pebbles, which abound in certain wheat, especially in Breton wheat.
Les Miserables 2008
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I laid her fox-tail coat along the base of the steamer trunk.
The House at Riverton Kate Morton 2008
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I laid her fox-tail coat along the base of the steamer trunk.
Kate Morton Ebook Collection Kate Morton 2008
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Dave jumped up, holding the piece of fox-tail grass yet in the nippers.
The Children's Portion Various
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The colt shut his eyes, and shook his head, as if wondering whether the agonizing fox-tail was really out at last.
The Children's Portion Various
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He wished that she should become three times as ugly as she was, that a dead rat should fall from her mouth whenever she laughed, and that the fox-tail grass might spring up in the footsteps wherever she trod.
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Sheep-men try to burn the fox-tail off the pasture land, and the fire runs into the farmers 'grain, lots of times.
The Children's Portion Various
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"Guess he'll stay out of fox-tail after this," said Sid.
The Children's Portion Various
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"Is fox-tail grass much bother to folks?" questioned Sid, seeing Rix from the door.
The Children's Portion Various
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