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  • He's left the plow-tail an's aff to Edinburgh to mak 'his fame an' fortune. '

    Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

  • He used them when Bobby followed him at the plow-tail or scampered over the heather with him behind the flocks.

    Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

  • He will commit in one meal every betise that a senllion fresh from the plow-tail is capable of, and he will continue to repeat those faults.

    American Notes Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • He will commit in one meal every bêtise that a senllion fresh from the plow-tail is capable of, and he will continue to repeat those faults.

    American Notes 1889

  • Henry never after that exhibited the slightest preference for any other profession, and always said, "They may put me at a plow-tail if they like."

    Records of a Girlhood Fanny Kemble 1851

  • Then there was Norman; he might have turned round and said at his age he could not be troubled with a raw boy from the plow-tail, but he was like a father to me, and took no end of pains with me.

    Black Beauty Anna Sewell 1849

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