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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A tangled ball of dried grass raced back towards Aulef like a whippet bound for home.
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He is telling Larry about his whippets.
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He ran, often, up the Heath with the whippets, in the deadest night.
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I knew him once, I knew the whippets.
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It took forty-seven stitches to put that whippet back together but it lived.
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Nabokov, who is exceedingly peremptory with all translators of Flaubert, renders this as whippet .
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Some men thought more about their whippets or their pigeons - they thought nowt of slinging the wife out on the street.