Example Sentences

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Lang man legless, Gaed to the door staffless: Goodwife, put up your deuks and hens; For dogs and cats I carena.

From Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Ford, Robert

Indeed, the staffless man, seemed to be but little less overcome than the prisoner.

From Rattlin the Reefer by Marryat, Frederick