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And for each chukkar, Jahanara changed her mount—a groom came to lead away her steaming animal and replace it with another, cooler, fresher horse.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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And for each chukkar, Jahanara changed her mount—a groom came to lead away her steaming animal and replace it with another, cooler, fresher horse.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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And for each chukkar, Jahanara changed her mount—a groom came to lead away her steaming animal and replace it with another, cooler, fresher horse.
Shadow Princess Indu Sundaresan 2010
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I opted for the full circle farms organic lettuce with chukkar cherries, candied walnuts and white balsamic vinaigrette accompanied by a broccoli and cauliflower dish with almonds and roasted capers.
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I opted for the full circle farms organic lettuce with chukkar cherries, candied walnuts and white balsamic vinaigrette accompanied by a broccoli and cauliflower dish with almonds and roasted capers.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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My eyes, I know, shone divinely as I watched Captain Slogger Dennehy of the Inniskillings win the final chukkar on his darling cob CENTAUR.
Ulysses 2003
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The pace was fast and furious, and the Black Oak team appeared rattled, committing three fouls during the chukkar, which gave the blue team two penalty shots from the forty-yard line and the third from the sixty.
The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985
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Luz glanced toward the end of the field, where the additional polo ponies waited for their chukkar of play.
The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985
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Trisha switched her attention to his horse, the one that had performed so brilliantly in the fifth chukkar.
The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985
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“It would have been a good contest if you throw out the fifth chukkar,” she mocked good-naturedly.
The Glory Game Janet Dailey 1985
brtom commented on the word chukkar
"My eyes, I know, shone divinely as I watched Captain Slogger Dennehy of the Inniskillings win the final chukkar on his darling cob Centaur."
Joyce, Ulysses, 15
February 8, 2007
seanahan commented on the word chukkar
I like the use of shone, an archaic form of shined.
February 8, 2007
uselessness commented on the word chukkar
Wow... it's never been suggested to me that it was an archaic word. I used it over "shined" all the time without thinking about it. Odd. I hope lit isn't an archaic form of lighted. That's just a yucky way for our language to go.
February 8, 2007
oroboros commented on the word chukkar
If I like a word I use it...archaic or not!!
February 8, 2007
seanahan commented on the word chukkar
http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=shined&word2=shone
Evidently, shone isn't archaic, as I thought.
February 9, 2007
uselessness commented on the word chukkar
There is still hope for the world. :-)
February 9, 2007