Word: tangental
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...told me he had no fears, as he considered himself a very good rider; but no sooner had he thrown his leg over the animal's back than the mule started, first with five or six buckjumps of twenty feet or more, and then went off at a tangent down the road, his tail high in the air, puffing fire from his nostrils, and increasing his speed at every jump, whilst the poor detective, bouncing like an india-rubber ball on his back, landed alternately upon the sharp protuberances of the army saddle, and cried to him to stop, that...
Straight as a tangent from that spot we went...