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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A field-cricket.
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Examples
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Like the crack that bruck the bank in Multifarnham.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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‘“Bad luck to ye,” says he, “my bones is bruck wid yer thricks; what the divil are ye doin’ wid me?”
The Purcell Papers 2003
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Robert, Marse Jefferson Davis 'mos' betrusted servant, is done en bruck out thick all ober wid de smallpox, en dar ain 'no tellin' how many er de President's friends en 'quaintances po'
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1913
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I'd tole him how ter bruck der odder chap's wrist, but he ain't got der sand ter fight a baby.
Frank Merriwell at Yale Burt L. Standish 1905
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` "Bad luck to ye," says he, "my bones is bruck wid yer thricks; what the divil are ye doin 'wid me?"
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But unluckily he was blessed with an ilegant large family iv daughters, an 'iv coorse his heart was allamost bruck, striving to make up fortunes for the whole of them.
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"Dey say Congress is going to be bruck up in tree weeks -- I'se glad enough o 'dat."
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856
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'"Bad luck to ye," says he, "my bones is bruck wid yer thricks; what the divil are ye doin' wid me? "
The Purcell Papers — Volume 3 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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But unluckily he was blessed with an ilegant large family iv daughters, an 'iv coorse his heart was allamost bruck, striving to make up fortunes for the whole of them.
The Purcell Papers — Volume 3 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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Musha, Gad bless yer haner, an 'maybe ye'd buy a slip of a pig fwhrom me, that has my heart bruck, so she has, if ever any body's heart was bruck wit the likes of her; an' sure so there was, no doubt, or I wouldn't be as I am wid her.
Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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