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- noun Plural form of
cony .
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Examples
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'The conies are a feeble folk, but they make their houses in the rocks.'
Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah Alexander Maclaren 1868
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He did not utter a word of disagreement, later vetoed the measure and subsequently called his conies in high places to fight his battle.
Newspaper Tree 2009
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He did not utter a word of disagreement, later vetoed the measure and subsequently called his conies in high places to fight his battle.
Newspaper Tree 2009
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There are also a kind of conies hauing long tayles like vnto cats: and on the outside of their tailes grow blacke and white haires.
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There are also a kind of conies hauing long tayles like vnto cats: and on the outside of their tailes grow blacke and white haires.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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It is composed of iron oxide, such as conies off a blacksmith's anvil or the rolls of a rolling-mill, and powdered metallic aluminum.
The Ear in the Wall 1908
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I had seen enough, however, to know that the noisy colony was a community of Little Chief hares (_Lagomys princeps, _ as they are named in the textbooks), or "conies," as the silver miners call them.
The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902
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Is it a sorry scheme of things that one generation goes and another conies and the world abides forever?
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With your denial of any intrinsic beauty in the emotion, with your acceptance of it as an unfortunate incident in human affairs, conies a vague hope that the race will outgrow this force.
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I know why some people call rabbits “conies”, but not that one.
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