runt

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"Here's my authority, yuh blasted runt," he yelled, and jerked his six-shooter to a level with the policeman's breast.

RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

Never since I was a little runt—did I—never cried in thirty years—and here I am-leaking like a pail!

"The darned little greasy-faced runt," he mumbled rebelliously, and immediately felt the better for it.

THE HAPPY FAMILYBERTHA MUZZY BOWER

She had betrayed such a liking for him that the miserable runt of a Little Willie had been jealous.

That troop has a miserable runt of a fice, and he's smart the same as such pups often are.

The Runt is a very large pigeon bred both for exhibition and for the table.

He was a miserable Yankee runt, an' I did n't hurt the cuss none to speak of.

GORDON CRAIGRANDALL PARRISH

The bag had had a merciful hole, and he, being the runt of the family, had fallen through before the proposed drowning came off.

I told that boy to be careful of the hole in the bag, that the runt might fall through it, and so he did.

It was a part of this man's duty to look after the welfare of certain pigs, of which one occupied the position of a "runt."

THE CHAINBEARERJ. FENIMORE COOPER

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