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I had the same shot on a doe today and hit it to far back she ran 30 yards and milled around for 30 minutes than easied out of the area. gonna go back for her tomarrow at day break. the low for tonight is 40*f so the meat will be ok.
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I had the same shot on a doe today and hit it to far back she ran 30 yards and milled around for 30 minutes than easied out of the area. gonna go back for her tomarrow at day break. the low for tonight is 40*f so the meat will be ok.
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Patches was out of shape, but I easied her along, and she toned up pretty quick.
Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls 1994
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Patches was out of shape, but I easied her along, and she toned up pretty quick.
Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls 1994
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Patches was out of shape, but I easied her along, and she toned up pretty quick.
Half Broke Horses Jeannette Walls 1994
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Then, watching our opportunity when the _Josephine_ was rising on the crest of a gigantic wave that had rolled up astern to poop her, but had fortunately instead passed underneath her keel, the helm was put up and the fore-yards easied round.
The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg
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But after a stroke or two I easied and let her drift back stern-foremost while I sat considering.
Poison Island Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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It was a relief to feel that something was being done to extricate them from their awkward predicament, and the men pulled hard for the next ten minutes or so, when, at a word from Captain Marsham, they easied, and a fresh howl was sent forth to penetrate the fog.
Steve Young George Manville Fenn 1870
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By now, Landau has learned that time has easied his pain allowing him to embrace life once again and re-discover his religious roots.
Our Local Style 2009
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The coil of rope was fully a hundred feet long, and of sufficient length to pass twice between the jolly-boat ashore and back again, leaving a few spare yards over; so, first throwing over a grapnel to anchor her head out to the sea, the water being only some three fathoms deep where she was riding, and the men in her being now wanted for something else besides rowing to keep her from drifting in, the other end of the line was belayed, and the boat easied in with the utmost care, two of the hands still keeping to their oars, until she reached the wrecked boat.
On Board the Esmeralda Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story William Heysham Overend 1874
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