tarrier

Example Sentences

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If Adam kept a tarrier, or Eve a poodle, the laps of ages hav washed away the fakt.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.

Yus, as old Barnum and Buggins, or tigers and tarrier pups.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 22nd, 1890 by Various

The cliverest lad of his hands and the best of his feet for twenty mile around—as full o' pluck as a tarrier an' as kindly-hearted as a wench.

From Aunt Rachel by Murray, David Christie

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

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

“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