Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
reef .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Obs. or Scot. Robbery.
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- noun obsolete, Scotland
robbery
Etymologies
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Examples
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Not necessarily because the PR folks at Metro are inherently so poetic, but Metro's response actually brings to mind one of Goethe's most famous lines from Faust: "Die Geister, die ich rief, werd' ich nun nicht los."
John Mirisch: Fault-y Towers: Don't Mention the Core! John Mirisch 2011
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Not necessarily because the PR folks at Metro are inherently so poetic, but Metro's response actually brings to mind one of Goethe's most famous lines from Faust: "Die Geister, die ich rief, werd' ich nun nicht los."
John Mirisch: Fault-y Towers: Don't Mention the Core! John Mirisch 2011
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The top prize goes to "she called him ON" German: sie rief ihn an.
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The top prize goes to "she called him ON" German: sie rief ihn an.
Archive 2008-12-01 Judy 2008
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Überblogger Michael Arrington rief zum Boykott gegen AP auf, sein Kollege Jeff Jarvis setzte auf zivilen Ungehorsam und forderte Blogger auf, AP-Stories in voller Länge zu kopieren.
FU AP « BuzzMachine 2008
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But as they left the cemetery, Susan, still suffering from rief and shock, felt a glimmer of hope for the future, hteir future.
two women Cole, Martina 1999
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"Die ich rief die Geister werd 'ich nun nicht los" ( "The ghosts I called I can't get rid of now").
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Trainer introduces the sub-systems, and gives rief lecture on social cybernetics.
Chapter 7 1983
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Wo, rief sie, willst du hin, -- Du! weisst du unsern Bund.
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"Und er nahm es an, oder er war ein Tropf!" rief der Jeungling.
Op. I. Dorothy Leigh 1916
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