polly
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In the uncanny way the little polly repeated Julius' slogan, and with that beak of his, Mr. Wintergreen was almost tempted to believe in reincarna tion.
From Time Magazine Archive
Every time we'd go in the orchard old polly parrot tell on us.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 by Work Projects Administration
"Ha, ha, ha! he kissed her in the wood, Fifine, give Poll his cracker, polly wants a cracker."
From Honor Edgeworth Ottawa's Present Tense by Vera, [pseud.]
De Missus had to go out dare fur somethin' an de parrot say, 'Poor polly, layin' in de sun.'
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration
“And which I considers it the completest ’onor out to be chums along o’ polly, anyhow whatsoever.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon
“Why, what do you know about pollies, old man?”
From Milly and Olly by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
Choost look, Dogdor; here's one of dose measley new pollies I god in from Zingapore.
From Preventable Diseases by Hutchinson, Woods
Page 140—petty amended to pretty—"... where there were a thousand other pretty pollies, ..."
From Old Deccan Days or Hindoo Fairy Legends Current in Southern India by Frere, M.
