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No one who puts his hand to the ploo and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of Jena shook herself.
The Summer Girl Boeshaar, Andrea 2003
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| _Alportu iom plu da ... _ | ahlport'oo ee'ohm ploo
Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation William W. Mann
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A little more milk | _Iom plu da lakto_ | ee'ohm ploo dah
Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation William W. Mann
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Every extra word | _Ĉiu plua vorto_ | chee-oo ploo-ah vor-toh
Esperanto Self-Taught with Phonetic Pronunciation William W. Mann
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"I shall hereafter only _think_ you are pretty, mademoiselle -- mais je ne le dirais ploo."
Barbarians 1899
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Don't fail to contemplate le ploo magnifique spectacle in all Europe!
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Their faces are as lang as a wet week when they think on that they've lossen an arm or a leg, an 'will niver milk nor ploo no more.
Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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He scarcelins wad addle (4) his saut wiv a ploo, or a shovel, or fork.
Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems Frederic William Moorman 1895
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I hae a stack o 'oats to thrash oot; a bit o' a fauld dyke to build; twa acres o 'the holme to ploo; the new barn to theek; the lea-field to saw wi' wheat; the turnips to bring in; the taties to bing; forbye a hunner ither things that can on nae account stan owre.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 17 John Mackay Wilson 1819
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These are pluripotent (ploo-RIP-uh-tunt) stem cells, meaning they can divide into more stem cells or they can specialize and become any type of body cell.
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