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  • Juss, ai wants tu maek shore ai has teh manshun tu maiselfs so ai kin stritch owt awn teh cowch, nom munchees adn watch mai storees… uh huh, yesh.

    U cans maek teh bed later. I’z nawt - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • Gotz to stritch boff sides of der bodee – frunt an bak.

    I iz ded. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • And if Jimmy Malone comes around this house I'll lav him out with the poker, and if Dannie Micnoun comes saft-saddering after him I'll stritch him out too; yis, and if Dolan's got anything to say, he can take his midicine like the rist.

    At the Foot of the Rainbow Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

  • "I'm of the opinion," remarked the sagacious Terry, "that Deerfut sint us on ahead last night so as to git us out uv the way; thim pritty legs of his can travel so fast that he wanted a chance to stritch the same without waitin 'fur us."

    The Hunters of the Ozark Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

  • Ware simply turned up with a tenor sax plus two horns he hadn't played for years - the stritch and the saxello.

    Latest Reviews 2010

  • Ware simply turned up with a tenor sax plus two horns he hadn't played for years - the stritch and the saxello.

    BBC Music - Latest Releases 2010

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    Regina Weinreich: Eli Wallach: A Good Seducer 2009

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    Regina Weinreich: Eli Wallach: A Good Seducer 2009

  • Carefully feeling his way through the scraps, he came upon what he’d been looking for: the stritch (a neologism created by Kirk for the relatively rare Buescher alto sax) and the manzello (another term invented by Kirk), a saxello (B-flat soprano sax) which he then modified by enlarging the bell and changing the mouthpiece so he could fit all three in his mouth.

    Rahsaan as Orpheus 2007

  • Put them beside you, Dick, and lay hold of this pair of britches by the ends of em '-- stritch them. "

    The Blue Lagoon: a romance 1907

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