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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
quirt .
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Examples
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It bawled indignantly, but he quirted it again and again until it began to gallop.
Who Do You Say I Am 2010
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She had seen the excitement in his eyes when he quirted someone, or prepared for a burning.
The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995
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He could have shot him or stabbed him or quirted him to death.
The Lonesome Dove Series Larry McMurtry 1995
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He could have shot him or stabbed him or quirted him to death.
Streets of Laredo Larry McMurtry 1993
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She had seen the excitement in his eyes when he quirted someone, or prepared for a burning.
Streets of Laredo Larry McMurtry 1993
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Thus speaking, the spy quirted the opening, leaving Nellie alone.
The Boy Land Boomer Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma Ralph Bonehill
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Bud quirted the tired Pinte into a gallop, and they approached the herd, about which the dark, slim figures of the dogs were running.
The Free Range Francis William Sullivan 1925
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It was decided by the cowmen that, as a warning and example to other sheep owners, Bud Larkin should be tied to a tree and quirted, the maximum of the punishment being set at thirty blows and the sentence to be carried out at dawn.
The Free Range Francis William Sullivan 1925
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If you speak to me again as you have this afternoon I will call those men in and have you quirted up against a tree.
The Free Range Francis William Sullivan 1925
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The Texan leaned far out and, grasping the bridle, drew him in to the bank and quirted him to the top.
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