byke
Britishnoun
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But in time he was convinced of the wisdom of not "making two blazes of the same wasps' byke," as he expressed it.
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As bees bizz out wi' angry fyke, When plundering herds assail their byke; As open pussie's mortal foes, When pop! she starts before their nose; As eager runs the market-crowd, When "Catch the thief!" resounds aloud; So Maggie runs,—the witches follow, Wi' monie an eldritch skreech and hollow.
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However, the God grew so fond of, and so "jealous" about, his box, that, on one occasion, he perpetrated a tremendously bloody miracle, in killing 50,070 of the "glowrin' byke," for peeping into it.
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Byke, the hive, or nes C Ca', call; right.
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Before the autumn sun had struggled through the mist, the badgers came home, grunting with comfort begotten of a raided bees' byke and truffles.
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