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  • McGee says that the Corby name will likely also not be used in Thailand "because in the Thai language, I believe 'corby' is a rude word".

    APCmag.com - All Articles 2010

  • McGee says that the Corby name will likely also not be used in Thailand "because in the Thai language, I believe 'corby' is a rude word".

    APCmag.com - All Articles 2010

  • McGee says that the Corby name will likely also not be used in Thailand "because in the Thai language, I believe 'corby' is a rude word".

    APCmag.com - All Articles 2010

  • President Obama has done more in his short time as President than any other President in my lifetime – he will get it done. corby

    Obama to host reception for LGBT community 2009

  • It may seem like a sensible thing to do: living is cheap, food and ironing done for you, minimal effort on household chores thanks to the dishwasher/tumbledryer/corby trouser press, but when has life ever been that rosy?

    …moving back in with your parents at my age. « Sven’s guide to… 2005

  • Current Music: crown me king- "the corby of goblins that rule the gulag"10 gunslingers | crown me king

    mordicai: crown me king! mordicai 2003

  • From early dawn till nightfall the welkin rings with the harsh caw of the house-crow, the deeper note of the black crow or corby, the tinkling music of the bulbuls, the cheery _keky_, _keky_, _kek_,

    A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

  • From each black tarn I looked to see a scaly reptile rise, from every fearsome cave a corby emerge.

    The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance 1916

  • For some are cold as clabber and the corby picks the brains of them,

    Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 1916

  • The nest of the kite, like that of the corby, is an untidy mass of sticks and twigs placed conspicuously in a lofty tree.

    A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

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  • I will go with my Father a-ploughing

    To the Green Field by the sea,

    And the rooks and corbies and seagulls

    Will come flocking after me.

    I will sing to the patient horses

    With the lark in the shine of the air,

    And my Father will sing the Plough-Song

    That blesses the cleaving share.

    - Joseph Campbell, 'I Will Go With My Father A-Ploughing'.

    November 12, 2008

  • A raven. --Dr. Jamieson's Scottish Dictionary and Supplement, 1841.

    gorby

    May 19, 2011