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  • Gas-lamps were lit by the "leerie" with his tall magic wand, as the children followed him respectfully down the street.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 2 1982

  • He used to describe Saunderson as "a mon with evil, leerie eyes, and eyebrows that met in a point over his nose"; and went on to say that Saunderson lived in a cave in the mountains where his forefathers, also suspected of being werwolves, had lived before him, and that when on his -- Saunderson's -- death this cave was visited by some of the villagers,

    Werwolves Elliott O'Donnell 1918

  • I'd be leerie of a coach that did, regardless of what i think about Keyshawn Johnson.

    Yahoo! Sports - Top News 2009

  • I’m a little leerie sic about why he needs two cells and who calls him so much.

    Zebratown Greg Donaldson 2010

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