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Javin had insisted, partly because of the way he had found the boy-a subject favin never discussed-and partly because they traveled to any number of less than safe places, that Cheyne leam the ten Argivan open-handed fighting forms and also to use a blade. lavin's care had made Cheyne deadly accurate with a dagger and better than most with a sword.
Song of Time McLaren, Teri 1996
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Javin had insisted, partly because of the way he had found the boy-a subject favin never discussed-and partly because they traveled to any number of less than safe places, that Cheyne leam the ten Argivan open-handed fighting forms and also to use a blade. lavin's care had made Cheyne deadly accurate with a dagger and better than most with a sword.
Song of Time McLaren, Teri 1996
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The tent-ropes was all skew-nosed, an 'the pegs looked as dhrunk as the men -- fifty av thim -- the scourin's, an' rinsin's, an 'Divil's lavin's av the Ould Rig'mint.
Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900
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The tent-ropes was all skew-nosed, an 'the pegs looked as dhrunk as the men -- fifty av thim -- the scourin's, an' rinsin's, an 'Divil's lavin's av the Ould Rig'mint.
Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Lashin's and lavin's there 'ud be for ivery wan, an' what was over, me fadher -- God be good to the ould boy alive or dead!
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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There's a gran 'big moon these times, wid lashin's and lavin's of light to be gettin' thim kind of glimmerin 'things by.
Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887
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