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Examples
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Then King Mark blew and straked, and therewith his knights came to him; and then the king commanded his knights to: Take that naked man with fairness, and bring him to my castle.
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Klaus clambered in, and the white-straked four-oar surged across the bay, rocking a little as the boys pulled out of stroke.
The Great Hunger Johan Bojer 1915
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Through the leaves that hid his nest he could see the yellowing vines in the distance, and the meadows where the straked cows were at pasture, filling the silence of the sleeping country-side with their plaintive long-drawn lowing.
Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House Romain Rolland 1905
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Then King Mark blew and straked, and therewith his knights came to him; and then the king commanded his knights to: Take that naked man with fairness, and bring him to my castle.
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He would become an American or Australian Abraham, commanding like a monarch his flocks and his herds, his spotted and his ring-straked, his men-servants and his maids.
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He came from conscientiously shepherding the flocks of ocean, and I do not wonder that my ring-straked, speckled and spotted varieties put him out of countenance.
Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Edmund Gosse 1888
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It was Godfrey that straked him out all alone on this table.
Old Man Savarin and Other Stories Edward William Thomson 1886
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Godfrey all alone had straked him out on this table, with the silver-pieces on the eyes that we had feared.
Old Man Savarin and Other Stories Edward William Thomson 1886
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He would become an American or Australian Abraham, commanding like a monarch his flocks and his herds, his spotted and his ring-straked, his men-servants and his maids.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884
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And we may suppose that the mixed colours of Jacob's cattle, ring-straked, speckled, and spotted, would please Esau's fancy.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721
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