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- noun Plural form of
tench .
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Examples
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If he got a bite he was excited enough: and in this way occasionally brought home carps, tenches, and eels, which the Major cooked in the Continental fashion.
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Joe Slovo - privileged and capable of rising in white society - but men and woman who challenged racism and put aside prospective comforts to join the poor and oppressed in the tenches of struggle.
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA ON THE OCCASION OF THE 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNIST PARTY : African National Congress 1996
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Joe Slovo - privileged and capable of rising in white society - but men and woman who challenged racism and put aside prospective comforts to join the poor and oppressed in the tenches of struggle.
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First and Joe Slovo - privileged and capable of rising in white society - but men and woman who challenged racism and put aside prospective comforts to join the poor and oppressed in the tenches of struggle.
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Take a rand of sturgeon, flay it and wipe it with a dry cloth, and not wash it, cut it into large slices; then have carps, tenches, or
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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Easter there, and “humbly and christenly did wesh the feet of 30 poore menne with his noble hands,” he was entertained at a banquet, to which the Mayor contributed “12 grete pykes, 12 grete tenches, and 12 salmons”;
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter James Conway Walter
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The thought of any more battles, tenches, submarines, air-raids, starvation, misery, is so unbearable to our bruised and stricken minds, that we have put it into words whose import is, Let us have no more of this!
A Straight Deal or The Ancient Grudge Owen Wister 1899
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Thus tenches, though grievously gashed, presently plaster themselves whole by that slimy and unctuous humour they have in them; and thus the inherent balsam of badness quickly cures my corruption, not a scar to be seen.
Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863
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If he got a bite he was excited enough: and in this way occasionally brought home carps, tenches, and eels, which the Major cooked in the Continental fashion.
The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Lions 'hogs up front dominated in the tenches, helping to build leads on the ground of 20-6 at halftime and 33-6 after three quarters.
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