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Plato cannot help laughing (compare Theaet.) when he thinks of the king running after his subjects, like the pig-driver or the bird-taker.
The Statesman 2006
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Indian, and uttered strange cries, much after the fashion of a pig-driver driving his pigs.
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Indian, and uttered strange cries, much after the fashion of a pig-driver driving his pigs.
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A table of piggy statistics for one year may not be uninteresting to my reader, or, at all events, to an Irish pig-driver: --
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray
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The stroke-oarsman gabbled Indian, and uttered strange cries, much after the fashion of a pig-driver driving his pigs.
Chapter XIV 1909
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At last he saw them driven along the road, for it had been found impossible to mend the cart, and at this moment Father Oliver began to think that he would like to be a pig-driver, or better still, a poacher like Carmody.
The Lake 1892
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His assurance was such that in Tullamore he made a pig-driver apologise before the magistrate for charging him with theft, although he had been living on nothing else all the time he was in Ireland.
George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891
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They say his father was a pig-driver in Waterford.
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The stroke-oarsman gabbled Indian, and uttered strange cries, much after the fashion of a pig-driver driving his pigs.
The Voyage of the Beagle Charles Darwin 1845
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Phil's journeys as a pig-driver to the leading seaport towns nearest him, were always particularly profitable.
Phil Purcel, The Pig-Driver; The Geography Of An Irish Oath; The Lianhan Shee Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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