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
"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 [pseud.] Vera
I seed Blink 'istidday stan' an' look at' im, an' den look down at 'isse'f, same as ter say, 'Is I a polly, or what?'
From Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales by Ruth McEnery Stuart
Mama tenders you her affections and polly joyns in duty with My dear Papa Your obt and ever Devoted Daughter, E. Lucas.
From Ten Girls from History by Kate Dickinson Sweetser
It seems unnatural like, so i appeals to polly.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
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 M. Frere
Choost look, Dogdor; here's one of dose measley new pollies I god in from Zingapore.
From Preventable Diseases by Woods Hutchinson
“Why, what do you know about pollies, old man?”
From Milly and Olly by Mrs. Humphry Ward
