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  • She went now to that doorway through which, unless a man lifted her over the threshold, she might not pass, on account of the tonthecs and the spaks and the horseshoes.

    Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918

  • Dom Manuel went to the door of the enclosure then to the windows, sweeping away the gilded tonthecs and the shining spaks, and removing from the copper nails the horseshoes that had been cast by Mohammed's mare and Hrimfaxi and Balaam's ass and Pegasus.

    Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918

  • 'Bain't for me to denai,' said John, looking at me very honestly, 'but what a maight tull a lai, now and awhiles, zame as other men doth, and most of arl them as spaks again it; but this here be no lai, Maister

    Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor 1862

  • If you don't want to know don't read ... spaks (1151 posts) on March 27, 2009 - 8: 08am. it just makes me look forward to what's coming even more.

    AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters 2009

  • If you don't want to know don't read ... spaks (1151 posts) on March 27, 2009 - 8: 08am. it just makes me look forward to what's coming even more.

    AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters 2009

  • ‘Bain’t for me to denai,’ said John, looking at me very honestly, ‘but what a maight tull a lai, now and awhiles, zame as other men doth, and most of arl them as spaks again it; but this here be no lai, Maister Jan. I wush to God it wor, boy: a maight slape this naight the better.’

    Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

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