polly

Example Sentences

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In the uncanny way the little polly repeated Julius' slogan, and with that beak of his, Mr. Wintergreen was almost tempted to believe in reincarna tion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mama tenders you her affections and polly joyns in duty with My dear Papa Your obt and ever Devoted Daughter, E. Lucas.

From Ten Girls from History by Sweetser, Kate Dickinson

Rest sing a mean old polly case with boats and a little scissors nicely sore.

From Geography and Plays by Stein, Gertrude

All red, blue, and green,— The most beautiful polly That ever was seen.

From Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading Selected from English and American Literature by Scudder, Horace Elisha

“Sometimes the hay we gets ain’t the sweetest o’ perfoomery, dobbin, old chummie; then I appeals to polly, cause you see if polly can eat it so kin i.

From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon