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Here the sailors gathered close, spinning yarns, cracking jokes, popping corn, and toasting wits, a-merrier far that your kitchen cuddies of older lands.

From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

"Ay," he said dryly, "there's a wheen gey cuddies in Barbie!" and he went back to his stuffy little room to study "The Wealth of Nations."

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas

There are more little cuddies of places, dye-shops, tailors, and nondescript corners that seem to have no possible mission on earth and are sadly conscious of their aimlessness.

From Violets and Other Tales by Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore

And this great mass of ruddy netting lying in the shed, with its perfect floats and accurate sinkers—this was not like the makeshift that had captured the cuddies.

From The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols by Black, William

"Ye auld wife, the sodgers would bray at ye like cuddies!"

From Weir of Hermiston by Stevenson, Robert Louis