tarrier
Example Sentences
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Mi wife iz one ov them kind ov wimmin that don’t make enny statements unless they are true, so yu needn’t send me enny more tarrier.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
Every branch, every flower, became a hand of the sun's clock for the impatient tarrier, while its seconds and minutes moved haltingly forward.
From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Rudolf von Gottschall
“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 George Manville Fenn
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
Yus, as old Barnum and Buggins, or tigers and tarrier pups.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 22nd, 1890 by Various
