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Pipes seem very odd when you first hear them, and a tyro practicing can set your teeth on edge — it sounds and looks as if he had a cat under his arm, its tail in his mouth, and biting it.† (source)
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He went on, giving slow, full value to each word: "We called you an incompetent fool, a tyro, a charlatan, a swindler, an egomaniac..."† (source)
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As she slowly drew nigh, from my lofty perch at the fore-mast-head, I had a good view of that sight so remarkable to a tyro in the far ocean fisheries—a whaler at sea, and long absent from home.† (source)
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He did a job that would have made a Comanche brave look like a tyro with a scalping knife.† (source)
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Jopp was far less of a tyro; he lifted one of the seals with his penknife, peeped in at the end thus opened, saw that the bundle consisted of letters; and, having satisfied himself thus far, sealed up the end again by simply softening the wax with the candle, and went off with the parcel as requested.† (source)
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The veteran Marine in the group, helping the tyro.† (source)
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Then Gladys, the new pantry maid, began to sing: Yo tiro la cuchara, Yo tiw el tenedor Yo tiro to'lo'plato' Yme voypa' Nueva Yof.† (source)
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At any time it is a strange sight to the tyro to see with what wondrous habitude of unconscious skill the whaleman will maintain an erect posture in his boat, even when pitched about by the most riotously perverse and cross-running seas.† (source)
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Rhambos and Tyros and Nornus and Iral and many more.† (source)
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A tiro nin, Fanuilos!† (source)
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So long as she persists in tormenting us, quick to exploit the gifts Athena gave her— a skilled hand for elegant work, a fine mind and subtle wiles too—we've never heard the like, not even in old stories sung of all Achaea's well-coifed queens who graced the years gone by: Mycenae crowned with garlands, Tyro and Alcmena ... Not one could equal Penelope for intrigue but in this case she intrigued beyond all limits.† (source)
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Those of his successors in each branch of natural philosophy with whom I was acquainted appeared even to my boy's apprehensions as tyros engaged in the same pursuit.† (source)
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We're on Granny Thela's cattle post outside Tiro.† (source)
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penny and procure for its fortunate possessor in the near future an entrée into fashionable houses in the best residential quarters of financial magnates in a large way of business and titled people where with his university degree of B. A. (a huge ad in its way) and gentlemanly bearing to all the more influence the good impression he would infallibly score a distinct success, being blessed with brains which also could be utilised for the purpose and other requisites, if his clothes were properly attended to so as to the better worm his way into their good graces as he, a youthful tyro in—society's sartorial niceties, hardly understood how a little thing like that could militate against you.† (source)
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"Sentinel Tyros, you are needed," she says flatly.† (source)
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Then Gladys, the new pantry maid, began to sing: Yo tiro la cuchara, Yo tiw el tenedor Yo tiro to'lo'plato' Yme voypa' Nueva Yof.† (source)
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