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  • "Afther embracin 'Goold Bonds an' tuckin 'him away in bed, Mack tur-rns to th' Dock.

    Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • Could it be Drew Brees tuckin-n-runnin with wreckless abandon for a crucial, drive-extending gain?

    Super Bowl 2010 – Score and Predictions | Manolith 2010

  • I don't care if I don't meet the requirements; I'm willing to do a little nippin '& tuckin'.

    I Would Congratulate Mark Sarvas, But I'm Too Busy Updating My Resume 2007

  • I don't care if I don't meet the requirements; I'm willing to do a little nippin '& tuckin'.

    February 2007 2007

  • Coombe were sober thrifty hardworking fellows except perhaps a bit too given to pothunting the harmless necessary animal of the feline persuasion of others at night so as to have a good old succulent tuckin with garlic DE RIGUEUR off him or her next day on the quiet and, he added, on the cheap. —

    Ulysses 2003

  • To delay a bedtime tuckin because She is there with you tonight, despite you asking me to call you.

    wench77 Diary Entry wench77 2003

  • "And it's glad that I am ter get rid of it," Nancy had declared in private afterwards to Pollyanna; "though it's a shame ter be tuckin 'the job off on ter you, poor lamb, so it is, it is!"

    Pollyanna 1912

  • Italy there near the Coombe were sober thrifty hardworking fellows except perhaps a bit too given to pothunting the harmless necessary animal of the feline persuasion of others at night so as to have a good old succulent tuckin with garlic _de rigueur_ off him or her next day on the quiet and, he added, on the cheap.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • An 'the booze he's tuckin' away is mighty pore stuff fo 'trainin'.

    Rimrock Trail 1906

  • She's been doin 'her sewin' for a year; the awfullest coarse cotton cloth she had, but she's nearly blinded herself with fine stitchin 'and rufflin' and tuckin '.

    Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903

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