Example Sentences
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Croaked Uncle Eph: "Brother, he has mighty nigh ruint me."
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Croaked Montgomery Ward's Sewell Avery: "The time is not far away."
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Croaked wrathful Judiciary Committee Chairman Hatton Sumners of Texas: "I will not have him on my committee."
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Croaked he: "Anything short of success at this Conference might well have unthinkable results!"
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Like a swan the prow clove onward, Croaked the stern as croaks a raven, Hissed the rowlocks just as geese hiss.
From Kalevala, The Land of the Heroes, Volume Two by Lönnrot, Elias