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  • The papers got thrun in the wind, after the polis come, in the ruggy-up that follied, looking for his license.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • The papers got thrun in the wind, after the polis come, in the ruggy-up that follied, looking for his license.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • How about that little tropic wild flower you carelessly plucked an 'thrun away?

    Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

  • "He thrun a dead codfish at me," protested McGuffey.

    Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

  • In fact he was willing to be thrun from -- er -- have his hoss step in a gopher-hole any day if the accident might terminate as pleasantly as had his late misfortune.

    Sundown Slim Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

  • Later, comin 'acrost the Mojave, we got thrun off a freight by mistake for a couple of sewin'-machines that we was ridin' with to

    Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

  • He kept shaking his head like a dog with a sore ear, vowing that if he found out "who thrun that basin" there would be an empty chair at the

    The Ridin' Kid from Powder River Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

  • It takes a man with sand to go around this country gettin 'pinched and thrun and burnt up and bein' arrested every time he goes to spit.

    Sundown Slim Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

  • Now I bruk jail -- hopped the Limited, took out me homesteader papers, got thrun off

    Sundown Slim Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909

  • "I see," said Mr. Dooley, "that th 'la-ad out in Kansas that thried to r-run a paper like what th' Lord wud r-run if he had lived in Topeka, has thrun up th 'job."

    Mr. Dooley's Philosophy Finley Peter Dunne 1901

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