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  • It seems as if the poor had gone raiding the town, and now trapesed back to their own quarters, like beetles scurrying to their holes, for that old woman fairly hobbles towards Waterloo, grasping a shiny bag, as if she had been out into the light and now made off with some scraped chicken bones to her hovel underground.

    Jacob's Room 2004

  • It seems as if the poor had gone raiding the town, and now trapesed back to their own quarters, like beetles scurrying to their holes, for that old woman fairly hobbles towards Waterloo, grasping a shiny bag, as if she had been out into the light and now made off with some scraped chicken bones to her hovel underground.

    Jacob's Room Virginia Woolf 1911

  • But she ought to have a chance; if she's a swan, she oughtn't to be trapesed off among the weeds and on the dry ground.

    Real Folks 1865

  • I guess by the time they have red-taped and trapesed round and wrangled those two tangles of title out, the logs will be safe down the River; and I guess that will about see the finish of Wayland before the coal cases come up -- "

    The Freebooters of the Wilderness 1903

  • Ann knowin 'nothin' o 'the matter; and off I trapesed back to Chester, and brung Mr. Stacy, and if that good-for-nothin' Jake Fairthorn hadn't ha 'seen me "--

    The Story of Kennett Bayard Taylor 1851

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