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  • They have already begun to cut down, or what they call stubb up, Barnton Spinnies.

    The Prime Minister 1876

  • They have already begun to cut down, or what they call stubb up, Barnton Spinnies.

    The Prime Minister Anthony Trollope 1848

  • If the lag screws are used, the tenons may be what are known as stubb tenons -- tenons of short length.

    Mission Furniture How to Make It, Part 2 1891

  • We automatically identify when sites are talking about physical places and cluster links even when they don't provide addresses and use different names ('stubb's bbq' is the same as

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2010

  • They seem to have a cigarette in their fingers right up to the sex and then they stubb out the cig and start touching the woman and putting fingers inside her.

    Safer Sex in Erotica Victoria Janssen 2010

  • Gotz to fourget da litter boxes an da cost of da gushy foods anna vet bills to make dis lobely image ob da 20 kittehs work eben dough fourgettin stubb be doin it rong.

    I haz a snuggl. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • All he had done was to tear the hazel up by the roots, but it had bent down with it the bough of another stubb, a stout, tough-looking bough, belonging evidently to a hazel growing farther from the edge of the shaft.

    Son Philip George Manville Fenn 1870

  • It was for life, and regardless of their cruel thorns he seized two in one of his hands and made a snatch higher towards the root of the stubb.

    Son Philip George Manville Fenn 1870

  • Such a short distance to climb if the hazel stubb would only hold; but he dare now hardly move, for the slightest vibration brought down more earth, and, moment by moment, be expected to hear the final crack, and then to feel the rush of the air as he was hurried down into the black depths below.

    Son Philip George Manville Fenn 1870

  • Another quick, sharp, despairing effort, and -- joy! he had seized the fresh stout branch that had been bent down by the loosened stubb.

    Son Philip George Manville Fenn 1870

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