Word: ferreter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...walk round Antwerp. The names, The Courrier Ferret, Conie, Ellie...
Important recommendations of the Colonel who left his Cleveland home to ferret out Filipino needs...
...defense, in resting its cast, entered strong protest against "the employment of police-spies to ferret into the affairs of the accused"; and charged that political factors had motivated the actions of the prosecution. Said Mr. Justice Swift, in his charge to the jury: "I would have you recall that if 9, crime is committed in secret, secret methods may have to be adopted in order to find it out. . . . Whether the defendants are being prosecuted by a rival political party or not is of no significance. ... If guilty, they are guilty, whether the prosecuting party be Conservative, Labor, Liberal...
Busy people should not be required to resort to a dictionary to ferret out your mysterious expressions when discussing ordinary happenings. I might.add also that some of your musical criticisms...
...next day, the wind falling, ravenous clouds of mosquitoes filled the sultry air and fattened on the white men as they fished for trout and salmon, shot seals, took pictures, exhibited their two Navy seaplanes and their radio apparatus to curious Eskimos, visited with the Rev. W. W. Ferret, head of the Moravian mission of Hopedale...