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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A battle (1590) in which the Huguenots under Henry IV. of France defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne.
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- noun a battle (1590) in which the Huguenots under Henry IV defeated the Catholics under the duke of Mayenne
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Examples
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I go up the road fur the likes o 'four miles ivry mornin' to see is there ony rocks on the thrack. '
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They kin pass things off wid th 'high hand an' kape their nerve betther'n th 'roughnecks -- ivry toime.
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall
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He says if people wud on'y call him in befure they got sick he'd abolish ivry disease in th 'ward except old age and pollyticks.
Civics and Health William H. Allen
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I'll gee _tuther penny_, an that's ivry vard'n I a got.
The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings
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A throlley line was started up me back an ivry car r-run into a wagon load iv scrap iron at th 'base iv me skull.
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But, gintilmin, a dinner is a very small thing and they are har-rd to discover, as ivry wan of you lads very will know.
The Cruise of the Dry Dock T. S. Stribling 1923
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They's a publisher in ivry block an 'in thousands iv happy homes some wan is plugging away at th' romantic novel or whalin 'out a pome on th' typewriter upstairs.
In the Mist of the Mountains Ethel Sybil Turner 1915
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'At ivry jolt I thought my' eart would ha 'flown clean out o' my mouth, 'be said.
Sons and Lovers 1913
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"Don't fight wid ivry scutt for the pure joy av fightin ', but if you do, knock the nose av him first an' frequint."
Theodore Roosevelt Edmund Lester Pearson 1908
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'At ivry jolt I thought my' eart would ha 'flown clean out o' my mouth, 'he said.
Sons and Lovers 1907
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