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  • Dey mite hab towl us dey wuz goin 2 leeb us in teh lerch!

    Dere, dere. Not eberyone can - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010

  • A woodpecker trilled just over her head, and as she carefully held each branch and pared every third bud off with a tiny knife, the rich, green scent of lerch sap spread on the air and she drank it in with pleasure.

    Owlsight Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • But since I'm out of flea-wort, lerch buds, tannim bark and elo root now, I have the perfect reason to go harvest some.

    Owlsight Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • The forms of the minne songs were the song (_lede_), lay (_lerch_), proverb (_spruch_).

    A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874

  • The stock market has taken a sharp lerch downward since Tuesday's elections, with the Dow Jones having lost approximately 1,000 points in the last two days.

    Music City Oracle 2008

  • “And now Mr. Pindargrasp I ave a terrible secret to hunraffel wich will put the sadel on the rite orse at last and as I does hall this agin my own guvnor wich of corse I love derely I do hope Mr. Pindargrasp you wont see me haltoogether left in the lerch.

    Castle Richmond 2004

  • "And now Mr. Pindargrasp I ave a terrible secret to hunraffel wich will put the sadel on the rite orse at last and as I does hall this agin my own guvnor wich of corse I love derely I do hope Mr. Pindargrasp you wont see me haltoogether left in the lerch.

    Castle Richmond Anthony Trollope 1848

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