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I wandered through it, still mentally fuming at Jamie, but growing gradually calmer as I listened for the distinctive tsee of a flycatcher and the harsh chatter of the mistle thrush.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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When you find your reference books, you'll discover that Rkatsiteli pronounced "rkah-tsee-tely" is widely planted in eastern Europe, especially in places like Georgia, Bulgaria, and the Ukraine.
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When you find your reference books, you'll discover that Rkatsiteli pronounced "rkah-tsee-tely" is widely planted in eastern Europe, especially in places like Georgia, Bulgaria, and the Ukraine.
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Soviet Unterzoegersdorf (pronounced «oon-taa-tsee-gars-doorf») is the last existing appanage republic of the USSR.
Boing Boing: September 4, 2005 - September 10, 2005 Archives 2005
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Rob left for work this morning in a delicious Yves Saint Laurent suit I really must come up with reasons for him to wear it at home, not just when I can' tsee him and Linnea and I got up much later.
Back to life, back to reality ailbhe 2006
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The culprit, after the mandarin has given the signal for punishment, is seized and stretched out with his belly flat on the ground, his breeches are pulled down to his heels, and on the mandarine throwing down a stick, of which he has a number by him, one of the officers in attendance uses the pan-tsee, and gives him five severe blows, which are succeeded by several others till the number is complete.
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But the ordinary observer seldom attains farther than to comprehend some of the cries of anxiety and fear around him, often so unlike the accustomed carol of the bird, -- as the mew of the Cat-Bird, the lamb-like bleating of the Veery and his impatient _yeoick_, the _chaip_ of the Meadow-Lark, the _towyee_ of the Chewink, the petulant _psit_ and _tsee_ of the
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various
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The instrument of correction, called pan-tsee, is a bamboo a little flattened, broad at the bottom, and polished at the upper extremity, in order to manage it more easily with the hand.
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Zambesi is barren, sprinkled with lagoons, malarial, and infested by the terrible tsee-tsee fly, which renders cattle-raising, the one industry otherwise suited to parts of this area, impossible.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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The high pitched "_tsee tsee_" had gradually given place to the low "_tsow tsow_" of the two streams cutting the foam when a peculiar smell grew stronger until it was nothing less than a disgusting stench.
Wild Animals at Home Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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