oxter
Example Sentences
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You may have “The Lives of the Poets” under your oxter, young fellow, but you don’t have them in your head, so go home and read.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 15, 1999
He says, How many Leaders have you under your oxter?
From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt
A friendly hand gripped him below the oxter, and, peering up, he discerned the Minister.
From Border Ghost Stories by Pease, Howard
By your way of it, you’re Balfour of the Shaws; but for what I ken you may be Balfour of the Deevil’s oxter.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
With a Bible under his oxter, and a 'bowet' new lit in his right hand, he accompanied me swiftly up the street.
From Border Ghost Stories by Pease, Howard
