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We sure got some good hollerin 'in back then, though that wily turkey-buzzard LBJ hollered louder.
Scott Brown: Joe Wilson: Pan-Carolina Hollerin' Champeen 2009
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"Nothing disturbed our rest this night, save our extreme suffering from cold, the soreness of our backs and ribs from coming in contact with the hard puncheons, and the unearthly groanings of poor Jake, who, during the night, gave us specimens of his turkey-buzzard vomiting, which made the old folks grunt and John and myself groan in madness and despair at the stinking effluvia that rose from Old Snyder's bed."
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"Nothing disturbed our rest this night, save our extreme suffering from cold, the soreness of our backs and ribs from coming in contact with the hard puncheons, and the unearthly groanings of poor Jake, who, during the night, gave us specimens of his turkey-buzzard vomiting, which made the old folks grunt and John and myself groan in madness and despair at the stinking effluvia that rose from Old Snyder's bed."
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I had this particular bit of local garbage from our garbage bird, our ibis, our scavenging turkey-buzzard, Mrs Bolton.
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Each herd was watched by the patient but inauspicious eyes of the turkey-buzzard.
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The peculiar worship of Legba consisted of propitiating his or her characteristics by unctions of palm oil, and near every native door stood a clay Legba-pot of cooked maize and palm oil, which got eaten by the turkey-buzzard or vulture.
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The turkey-buzzard is a solitary bird, or at most goes in pairs.
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We have now only to mention the turkey-buzzard (Vultur aura), and the Gallinazo.
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We have now only to mention the turkey-buzzard (Vultur aura), and the Gallinazo.
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On the other hand, besides the experiments of Audubon and that one by myself, Mr. Bachman has tried in the United States many varied plans, showing that neither the turkey-buzzard (the species dissected by Professor Owen) nor the gallinazo find their food by smell.
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