tarrier
Example Sentences
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He resembles the rat tarrier in countenance, and skratches hiz hed, az natral az a distrikt skool boy, and undoubtedly for the same reason.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
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 Joseph Crosby Lincoln
Better nor any tarrier she is at it.”
From White Lilac; or the Queen of the May by Amy Walton
An ill-natured old man and an old chawed up bull tarrier 259 are just the things tew set side bi side sumwhare in the sun, and fite flies for amuzement!
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
It 's that little tarrier dog of yours, Mrs. Hopkins, that will be after worryin' the mice an' the rats, an' the thaves too, I 'll warrant.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867. by Various
