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Examples

  • And sometimes Len he just sets and sets and watches Baby Jean asleep, and his eyes are worried like a horse's eyes when he knows he's starvin '; and the yenshee hound he just sets and looks at Len, and Heaven only knows what he's thinkin'!

    The She Boss A Western Story Arthur Preston Hankins 1906

  • "Hong Duo was the chink -- a grinnin 'yenshee hound from up beyond the

    The She Boss A Western Story Arthur Preston Hankins 1906

  • I sell the cleanings of my pipe -- the yenshee, we call it -- so I keep going. "

    The Port of Adventure 1889

  • "But it is the old smokers who smoke the yenshee, not the young ones.

    The Port of Adventure 1889

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  • The residue in the bowl of an opium pipe.

    December 4, 2007

  • Sounds like yahtzee.

    December 4, 2007