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  • I thought that might be only their yarring when they said so; but they mentioned those two chiefs in particular, I remember now, and asserted that they intended ` digging up the hatchet, 'as they termed it in their euphonious language, as soon as the spring came round!

    Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek

  • And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their access to her, and every way keeping such a coil with her as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed from thence, and went to call

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

  • And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their access to her, and every way keeping such a coil with her as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed from thence, and went to call Pantagruel, not forgetting in his way alongst the streets through which he went, where he found any dogs to give them a bang with his foot, saying,

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their access to her, and every way keeping such a coil with her as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed from thence, and went to call Pantagruel, not forgetting in his way alongst the streets through which he went, where he found any dogs to give them a bang with his foot, saying,

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • a cloud of dust, rolled over and over, howling, yarring, tearing each other with sickening ferocity.

    The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Ambrose Bierce 1878

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