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Wehn I had to send mah Tuxedo over teh bridj he had a stroak at age 20 I tole mah vet to lissen owt for a kitteh taht needed a hoam…abowt a week latur he called and sayd Cud you take two?

synchronized sleeping - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

It may be imputed to the close cement of the wall, which makes it as one entire stone, and so conveys the voice, as a long piece of timber does convey the least stroak to the other end.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

_Manning_, the Method of which being generally one and the same (though it has been the Labour of some to spend much Time, and many Words in treating of the various wayes of _Manning Hawks_, and yet comes all to one effect) I shall in short (according to the Design of this _Epitome_) lay down this Rule: That you watch, and keep them from Sleep, continually carrying them upon your _Fist_, familiarly stroak them with

The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing Robert Howlett

_Peal_, checking them only at Sally, till the low Compass renders it useless; and when so low, that for want of Compass, they can scarce strike at Back-stroak; then let the _Treble_-Ringer stamp, as a Signal, to notify, that the next time they come to strike at the Fore-stroke, to check them down, to hinder their striking the Back-stroke; yet

The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing Robert Howlett

When leading me, obedient to all her commands, a second time to the cell of a neighbouring priestess of Priapus, she threw me upon the bed, and taking up a stick that fastened the door, reveng'd her self on me, that very patiently receiv'd her fury: and at the first stroak, if the breaking of the stick had not lessned its force, she might have broke my head and arm.

The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

Or in short, in 12345. the _Note_ that leads either at Fore or Back-stroak, is said to _Lye before_ the rest, and the last to be behind.

The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing Robert Howlett

Your unbeleef sapps his _will powers_. you have only reprooved him for being late. why not incurrage him say by _paying_ him 5 cents a morning for a wile to get amung his little maits on the stroak of nine?

The Story of Patsy Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

You can make them starve and rot with cold and fluxes, and make them dwindle away to nothing if they were triple your Number, and without striking a stroak, if we take the advantage the Countrey and Climate affords -- the renown'd King Robert Bruce, Sir

Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles Andrew Lang 1878

Look me in the face, boy! stroak away the curls from thy forehead: good! now give me thy left hand: the right: heyday! strange and marvellous!

The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck Ludwig Tieck 1813

In many parts of _England_, it is common to set Milk in Brass Pans, and that gives an ill Taste to the Milk; and again, there is a custom of setting the Cream in Brass-Kettles over the Fire, and as it warms to stroak the Butter as it rises to the edge of the Kettle: this way is very bad for

The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm Richard Bradley 1710