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Wud wauk rownd awl Catmus dai wif a stik awn bow awn hur hed an neber eben bat it awf, shee dint cair.
letz mi getz dis - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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I wuz a liddle freekeyed out, but id wuz awl berry civulized- teh buz driber showededed me how to wauk home on teh map-tuk about an hour but veree safe.
chezbargr riot - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Lo, tho Ai wauk thru da valie uf da shadoe uf deth, Ai weel feer no ebil, foar ceeling cat is wif meh…
I iz brave cheekin, no? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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L before k is silent; as in balk, walk, talk; pronounced bauk, wauk, tauk.
The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference Joseph Triemens
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"Gentlemen," said he, "get your hats -- haste ye -- an 'let us gang an' tak a lang wauk, for my mother an 'the lasses are on a-scrubbing a whole floorfu' o 'bottles; an' as I cam by, I heard her speaking about getting the ale bottled the day."
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 370, May 16, 1829 Various
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No wonder Shing-wauk -- The Little Pine -- sang his love song, too, for was not his heart aflame with the spring time of life?
The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure Arthur Henry Howard Heming 1905
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Oo-koo-hoo, as Granny entered with glee and displayed a new deerskin work-bag, containing needles, thread, thimble, and scissors; a present from Shing-wauk -- The Little Pine -- Neykia's lover.
The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure Arthur Henry Howard Heming 1905
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Shing-wauk -- The Little Pine -- had come that day, and had been invited to sleep in Amik's tepee; yet he spent the greater part of his time sitting with Neykia in her grandmother's lodge.
The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure Arthur Henry Howard Heming 1905
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Shing-wauk -- The Little Pine -- as the Indians called him, stayed three days, but I did not see much of him, for I left early the following morning on another round of another trapping-path.
The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure Arthur Henry Howard Heming 1905
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The great wheel, which drove the whole machinery; the plash-mill, or, more properly, wauk-mill -- a word
Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864
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