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Examples
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She wore a tam-o '- shanter, and I thought her brown hair the prettiest shade of brown
Chapter 18 2010
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Only instead of goofy tam-o--shanters, shamrocks, and smiles, they were wearing black steel ballistic helmets, automatic weapons, and deadly serious frowns.
Step on a Crack Patterson, James, 1947- 2007
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Golf was a Japanese version of America, played in plus fours and tam-o--shanters, celebrated on the nineteenth hole with a round bought by the highest score.
December 6 Smith, Martin Cruz 2002
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She wears a blue tam-o 'shanter and has an ankle like a fairy tale.
Kathleen Christopher Morley 1923
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She wore a tam-o '- shanter, and I thought her brown hair the prettiest shade of brown
Chapter XVIII 1913
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Benjamin tried on the tam-o '- shanter, but it was too big for him.
The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter 1904
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Benjamin tried on the tam-o '- shanter, but it was too big for him.
The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter 1904
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Benjamin tried on the tam-o '- shanter, but it was too big for him.
The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter 1904
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Glendolene Kimmel arrived at the courthouse wearing a red tam-o’-shanter.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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The professor was wearing the uniform for the moor’s human intruders: plus fours, a tweed jacket, and a tam-o’-shanter.
Day of the Dandelion Peter Pringle 2007
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