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  • She pronounced it "ogly," and seemed to think that the story finished there.

    With Edged Tools Henry Seton Merriman 1882

  • No one love Giova, only Beppo; but some day Beppo he keel Giova now he is dead, for Beppo vera large, strong bear -- fierce bear -- ogly bear.

    The Oakdale Affair 1918

  • No one love Giova, only Beppo; but some day Beppo he keel Giova now HE is dead, for Beppo vera large, strong bear -- fierce bear -- ogly bear.

    The Oakdale Affair Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • 'Sergeant dear,' sez I, 'sure why can't I be gittin' back to the rigimint? 'sez I.' Agh, t'hell out o 'that,' sez he; 'sure didn't ye hear what the major bin and said?' sez he, an 'he gin me over to a carpral -- one on thim ogly Jocks, sorr -- an' down we goes by the quays to the boat -- a gran 'boat, sorr, wid ladies an' childer an 'Frinch an'

    Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 1893

  • Jordan was essentially ugly, too, with that peculiar genius for ugliness which must have inspired the familiar saying current among plantation folk, "He's so ogly tell he's purty."

    Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

  • "It sharp 'nuff to shave de hair off your ogly face, Bryan."

    Ungava 1859

  • "Well, dat be all same -- only a litil bit more ogly," retorted Bunco, with a grin, "an 'me no want to lose sight ob Doctor Os'n here: me come for to show him how to go troo de forest."

    Lost in the Forest Wandering Will's Adventures in South America 1859

  • Perhaps you did not know something else too -- p'raps you did not know "(and here the monster clapped his hand on the table and made the punch-ladle tremble in the bowl) --" p'raps you did not know as dat yong man, dat Stobbs, dat sneaking, baltry, squinting fellow, is as vicked as he is ogly.

    The Fatal Boots William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • The monkey was hanging by the tail from the dolphin -- striker, admiring what John Crow called "his own dam ogly face in the water."

    Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812

  • Perhaps you did not know something else too — p’raps you did not know” (and here the monster clapped his hand on the table and made the punch-ladle tremble in the bowl) — “p’raps you did not know as dat yong man, dat Stobbs, dat sneaking, baltry, squinting fellow, is as vicked as he is ogly.

    The Fatal Boots 2006

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