tarrier

Example Sentences

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Where wings to rustle use, But this poor tarrier - Searching my spirit's eaves - Find I for carrier.

From Poems by Thompson, Francis

“That’s a nice enough little tarrier as Sir Grantley Wilters brought, and she won’t have none of it, but leaves it to her ladyship.”

From Lady Maude's Mania by Fenn, George Manville

You see, the old tarrier was crossing Saint Nicholas Avenue, with a big market basket full of provisions—the family dinner, I suppose.

From Cap'n Warren's Wards by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby

When doggy men beyond ocean talk about a terrier, they usually pronounce it tarrier, and not terrier, as we mostly call him on this bank of the Atlantic.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 by Various

He's th' best tarrier fur rats as tha ivver seed.

From That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 by Burnett, Frances Hodgson