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worry
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synonyms: touse ???
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Definition:1. To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly2. to tear or mangle with the teeth.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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This is the maiden all forlorn
That milked the cow with the crumpled horn
That tossed the dog that worried the cat
That killed the rat that ate the malt
That lay in the house that Jack built.
Anonymous. This is the House That Jack Built
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While one boy was worrying the tick with absorbing interest, the other would look on with interest as strong, the two heads bowed together over the slate, and the two souls dead to all things else.
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
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His mother, like a dog worrying a blanket, moved around in her seat and fidgeted.
Alice Sebold. The Lovely Bones, p.189 (2002)
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"As soon as a Wolf shall have disturbed a flock, and shall have begun to worry a Sheep, then the Sheep shall be allowed, without respect to persons, to seize it by the scruf of the neck, to carry it into the nearest thicket or wood, and there to bring it before the court."
This law is everything that can be desired. Only, I have remarked, up to the present day, that although the Wolves are not to be allowed to worry with impunity, yet in all cases, whether the Sheep be plaintiff or defendant, the Wolf is always sure, in spite of all opposition, to carry off the Sheep into the forest.
Ivan Krylov.The Wolves and the Sheep (Ralston translation, 1869)
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A hellhound that doth hunt us all to death; That dog that had his teeth before his eyes, To worry lambs and lap their gentle blood.
William Shakespeare. The Tragedy of Richard the Third
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He sprang at the foremost man (it was the chief of the Yeehats), ripping the throat wide open till the rent jugular spouted a fountain of blood. He did not pause to worry the victim, but ripped in passing, with the next bound tearing wide the throat of a second man.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
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thousands of enemy stragglers, marauders, and foragers had been destroyed by the Cossacks and the peasants, who killed them off as instinctively as dogs worry a stray mad dog to death.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 14 (Book Fourteen)
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I was in time to see the beast spring upon its victim, hurl him to the ground, and worry at his throat.
Arthur Conan Doyle. Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (1902)
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she picked up a little bit of stick, and held it out to the puppy; whereupon the puppy jumped into the air off all its feet at once, with a yelp of delight, and rushed at the stick, and made believe to worry it;
Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland (1865)
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Her mind worried it like a dog worrying a bone.
Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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