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Examples
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The people defending this corrupt process are just empowering Republicans in the future to rigg elections in their favor.
Nevada Teachers' Union Sues To Stop Workers Caucusing On Las Vegas Strip 2009
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_Shaw rigg_, where a large stone stood on his left hand.
The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People
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As soon as it was gone, Helen asked her father what was the reason of calling the place where the great stone described by Mrs. Scott stood, the Shaw rigg?
The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People
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Mr. Scott advised them, after their fatigue, to enter the house and seat themselves with his wife, while he would walk towards the _Shaw rigg_ in search of John.
The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People
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I remember once he was a whole day and night getting from Langholm to the _Shaw rigg_.
The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People
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Ye see we march on the tap o Touthop-rigg after we pass the Pomoragrains; for the Pomoragrains, and Slackenspool, and Bloodylaws, they come in there, and they belang to the Peel; but after ye pass Pomoragrains at a muckle great saucer-headed cutlugged stane, that they ca Charlies Chuckie, there Dawston Cleugh and Charlies-hope they march.
Chapter XXXVI 1917
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It was no great full-riggd ship, nor majestic steamer, steering firmly through the gale, but seemd one of those superb little schooner yachts I had often seen lying anchord, rocking so jauntily, in the waters around New York, or up Long Island soundnow flying uncontrolld with torn sails and broken spars through the wild sleet and winds and waves of the night.
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I hae taen the bent ower the Otterscrape-rigg a hundred times, day and night, and never could find the way unless I had taen my morning; mair by token that I had whiles twa bits o 'ankers
Rob Roy 1887
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- Last night we had a novelty in the way of society, a sort of Irish/rigg/.
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Brown-rigg with her apprentice; the Mannings with their murdered guest;
Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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