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The Bee County sheriff cottoned to this abstemious rip-tail roarer and made him his chief deputy in 1941.

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Hank Williams Jr. has a roarer going on over at a big spread near Nashville.

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And when there is boasting to be done, Bill will talk as loud and as long as any ring-tailed roarer that ever lived.

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When he died of cancer of the stomach in 1885, the old roarer left his ranch in good hands.

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Evidently given to wind-gall, spavin, and splint, he—the horse, not the driver—was to an unpractised eye decidedly a jibber; while even a female ear would have detected that he was a roarer.

From Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches by Fenn, George Manville