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Banning Patrol Towing: No more waiting to snab Starbucks customers or the meals-on-wheels delivery gal.
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Mein soul, we will be all princes and hertzogs, whom they call dukes, and we will hab a snab at the wein kellar [wine cellar], and at the mouldy French crowns, and it may be at the pretty garces too
Quentin Durward 2008
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The laird and the cottar were there, the homely shepherd and the village snab who cobbled his shoes, the banker and the carter, the manufacturer and the mechanic -- all on that oft-quoted platform which is built alone of curlers 'ice.
St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles
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At one of their meetings, held at the sign of the Tappet Hen and the Tankard, there was a prime fight of five rounds between Tammy Bowsie, the snab, and auld Thrashem, the dominie, about their drawing cuts which was to get Dalkeith Palace, and which Newbottle Abbey!
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909
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By-the-bye, it was two of our own volunteer lads that were playing that day before them, Rory Skirl the snab, and Geordie Thump the dyer; so this, ye see, verified the old proverb, that travel where ye like, to the world's end, ye'll aye meet with kent faces; Tammie and me coming out to the yill-house door to see them pass by.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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-- At one of their meetings, held at the sign of the Tappet Hen and the Tankard, there was a prime fight of five rounds between Tammy Bowsie the snab, and auld Thrashem the dominie with the boulie-back, about their drawing cuts which was to get Dalkeith
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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By-the-bye, it was two of our own volunteer lads that were playing that day before them, Rory Skirl the snab, and Geordie Thump the dyer; so this, ye see, verified the old proverb, that travel where ye like, to the world's end, ye'll aye meet with kent faces; Tammie and me coming out to the yill-house door to see them pass by.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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-- At one of their meetings, held at the sign of the Tappet Hen and the Tankard, there was a prime fight of five rounds between Tammy Bowsie the snab, and auld Thrashem the dominie with the boulie-back about their drawing cuts which was to get Dalkeith
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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Banning Patrol Towing: No more waiting to snab Starbucks customers or the meals-on-wheels delivery gal.
Consumerist 2009
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Sutherland used all 21 of his players to snab a come-from-behind victory as the Greenwave edged Damonte Ranch, 2-1, Wednesday night in both teams 'Sierra League opener.
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