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His eyes glittered, his mouth worked convulsively, and his cheeks were as black with the flying soot as the "colley" of the pot.

The Manxman A Novel - 1895 Hall Caine 1892

I fancy the poor dog seems to feel the monstrosity of the performance, and, in sheer shame for his master, forgivingly tries to assume it is PLAY; and I have seen a little "colley" running along, barking, and endeavoring to leap and gambol in the shafts, before a load that any one out of this locality would have thought the direst cruelty.

The Twins of Table Mountain Bret Harte 1869

Yes, you read right "colley" is an old world meaning

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The wild people are more humane; they pay two ewes for a good colley, and demand a two-year-old sheep as

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He is hunted with dogs, generally resembling a cross between the greyhound and the colley of the

Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia John Milton Mackie

A light damask curtain is found to have been saturated with port wine; a ditto chair-cushion has been doing duty as a dripping-pan to a cluster of wax-lights; a china shepherdess, having been brought into violent collision with the tail of a raging lion on the mantel-piece, has reduced the noble beast to the short-cut condition of a Scotch colley.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841, Various

Certainly the shepherd's colley has been admirably individualized by the Ettrick

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various

Scotch colley, -- a lean, wrinkled, dark-faced woman, who is unwinding the bandages from a squalling _Bambino_, -- a mixed odor of garlic and of goats, that is quickened with an ammoniacal pungency, -- and you may form some idea of the home of a small Roman farmer in our day.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 Various

It was not until the house-colley went up to sniff at him and he stooped to pat its head that it flashed on me the stranger was the shepherd-lad who had befriended me in my weary tramp across Ayrshire.

The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 Gordon Sellar

Mr. B---- has a dear colley with whom he carries on long conversations, particularly on the subject of the coolness of the morning and the water in his bath; so you see we have plenty of animal life about.

A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba Cecil Hall