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- noun A
marine bivalve mollusc , of the genus Tellina, that burrows in the sand, from where itsiphons detritus .
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Examples
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Not even a phone call tellin me I was going to get nothin.
miss-k2 Diary Entry miss-k2 2004
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` Honour bright, 'says I, ` if ye don't call tellin' my captain splittin '.'
Black Ivory Francis B. Pearson 1859
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You've got a cinch-nobody to think of but your own precious self -- an 'a lot of young hoodlums makin' eyes at you an 'tellin' you how beautiful your eyes are.
CHAPTER I 2010
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An 'tellin' me ye were a banker, "he added sorrowfully," an 'you wid spurs an' brass buttons stickin 'out all over ye!
THE NUMBERS 2010
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Imagine goin 'tae Doyle's office, or the staff room, an' tellin 'everybody your class aw drew big wullies instead o' writin 'their essays.'
A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001
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You kep 'tellin', us 'bout that asteroid full of renegade robots and how we was gonna need this here robot camo to keep 'em from zappin 'us.
Phule me twice Asprin, Robert 2001
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An 'tellin' me ye were a banker, "he added sorrowfully," an 'you wid spurs an' brass buttons stickin 'out all over ye!
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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An 'tellin' me ye were a banker, "he added sorrowfully," an 'you wid spurs an' brass buttons stickin 'out all over ye!
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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Ye're never tired o 'tellin' us whit a favourite ye are wi 'the public.
Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971
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Ye're never tired o 'tellin' us whit a favourite ye are wi 'the public.
Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971
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