tarrier
Example Sentences
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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
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
Better nor any tarrier she is at it.”
From White Lilac; or the Queen of the May by Amy Walton
"You'll surely remember th' little Yarkshire tarrier as strayed into th' village in the summer o' '14," said William.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 16, 1920 by Various
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
