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Examples
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Fiquin needed only the lightest heel-tap to pick up his long-legged gate, and the patrol trotted up the incline as the crevice walls grew around them.
The Covenant of the Forge Parkinson, Dan 1993
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Fiquin needed only the lightest heel-tap to pick up his long-legged gate, and the patrol trotted up the incline as the crevice walls grew around them.
The Covenant of the Forge Parkinson, Dan 1993
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Day after day, each man of us poured out on the trail the last heel-tap of his strength, and the coming of night found us utterly played out.
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He had played prompter for the white folks at a thousand frolics, and knew every step and turn and fling of the heel-tap and the toe, but he had never seen such a peculiar double demi-semi-quiver shuffle as that old buzzard loped around that mule.
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I folded my portion of these dispatches small, wrapped them in thin gutta-percha, and, going to the most obscure shoemaker in the part of London which I knew, had the heel of one of my boots excavated and the packet deposited in the hole and covered over again by a stout heel-tap.
The Autobiography of a Journalist Stillman, William James, 1828-1901 1901
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"I think we are somewhere in the Atlantic; but your finding that heel-tap does puzzle me."
The Changing Sun 1894
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This took the Englishman's breath away for a moment, then he remarked: "That accounts for the heel-tap we found; who knows, these people may be possessors of the richest gold and silver mines on earth."
The Changing Sun 1894
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"I think we are somewhere in the Atlantic; but your finding that heel-tap does puzzle me."
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"That accounts for the heel-tap we found; who knows, these people may be possessors of the richest gold and silver mines on earth."
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A complete change of garments-not a thumb-patch or extra heel-tap missing.
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