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Examples
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But jest as I came around a bend, heelin 'it right lively I tell you, what'd I see in middle of the trail before me, and comin' my way, but another bald-face!
Bald-Face 2010
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But there's one thing about the bald-face that a man has to learn: he never gives the trail to mortal creature.
Bald-Face 2010
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The way this one was puffin 'after me, I'd clean forgot all about the other bald-face.
Bald-Face 2010
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I stops jest behind it, old bald-face comin 'all the time.
Bald-Face 2010
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He's called the bald-face grizzly, and he's jest as big as he is bad.
Bald-Face 2010
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One had died of scurvy; another's partner had robbed him of his last grub and powder and stolen away; a third had been mauled by a bald-face grizzly; a fourth had hunted for game and starved, -- and so it went, and they had been loath to leave the gold, and had died by the side of it in one way or another.
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Even the babes are affrighted when they gaze upon her, and it is said the bald-face gives her the trail.
The Sun of the Wolf 2010
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Restless as the bald-face, he ranged wide and far — north to Unalaska and the
THE DEATH OF LIGOUN 2010
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Even the big bald-face grew clumsy and blind and quarrelsome, in the end to be dragged down by a handful of yelping huskies.
THE LAW OF LIFE 2010
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I rounded the end of that log and put down the hill at a two-twenty clip, old bald-face reachin 'for me at every jump.
Bald-Face 2010
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