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Meanings of old drake in inglês

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Usage of old drake in inglês
1
That old drake is quite puffed up with excitement and importance!
The Heavenly Twins
2
She laughed and set the old drake on his feet.
Mistress Anne
3
The old drake from some remote fastness flung his protest to the four winds!
Mistress Anne
4
When that old drake wants to take a swim, he starts and the rest follow.
Uncle Robert's Geography (Uncle Robert's Visit, V.3)
5
He flashed his lantern into Diogenes' dark corner and saw the old drake at rest.
Mistress Anne
6
The lantern was set on the step above her, and she was feeding the old drake.
Mistress Anne
7
Anne knelt down by the old drake, and he bent his head under her caressing hand.
Mistress Anne
8
But Anne, lonely in her new quarters, had appreciated the forlornness of the old drake and had adopted him.
Mistress Anne
9
The old drake, reassured by the sound of voices, showed himself for a moment in the track of the lantern light.
Mistress Anne
10
And I met her panting and struggling with him in old Drake's meadows.'
Dwell Deep; or, Hilda Thorn's Life Story
11
Old Drake suddenly stopped looking agreeable-but-bored-heseemed both interested and amused.
The illuminatus! trilogy
12
Old Drake, to do him justice, hadn't acquired his wealth without some shrewdness concerning human peculiarities.
The illuminatus! trilogy
13
There was a long pause, and old Drake crushed out a cigar he had hardly started.
The illuminatus! trilogy
14
The pack was just a third the normal size, but it was still bigger than 6-year- old Drake Stokes.
Reuters
15
Old Drake, the next day, ran into his son begging on the street near the Old Granary cemetery.
The illuminatus! trilogy
16
She recognized Drake as soon as he wandered into the tea parlor: old Drake's son, the crazy one, loaded.
The illuminatus! trilogy
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Old drake across language varieties
United Kingdom
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