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"text": "Then the tits—particularly the blue tits—begin to flash like light from tree to tree, with their tweenk, tweenk, tweenk; one of the prettiest but most pugnacious of birds; and if you are near water, the wanton wagtails are never long out of it, with their pert and sidelong glance and darty walk, and quaint call seldom used; and they shake and preen and trim themselves, as it were, into harmony with their surroundings, like fashionable ladies at a tea party.",
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"text": "'It's a different kind of pain now,' I'd say. 'Remember when I said it was a kind of hummy ache? Well, it's changed. More darty.'",
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"text": "Tiller steering is not for the faint-hearted. It is darty, like a ferret on a lead. Left turns involve pulling the short lever awkwardly into your tummy, and then there's the thought that any kind of impact could involve the driver being skewered like a cocktail sausage.",
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"ref": "2006 August 2, Dan Neil, “A real roadster in its blood”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, L.A.: Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-05-10:",
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"ref": "2019 November 15, Brendan McAleer, “A zippy, trippy celebration for the Mazda MX-5′s 30th birthday”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, O.N.: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-04:",
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"ref": "1887 September, Alex H. Japp, “Up in the Morning Early”, in Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review, volume 263, number 1881, page 296:",
"text": "Then the tits—particularly the blue tits—begin to flash like light from tree to tree, with their tweenk, tweenk, tweenk; one of the prettiest but most pugnacious of birds; and if you are near water, the wanton wagtails are never long out of it, with their pert and sidelong glance and darty walk, and quaint call seldom used; and they shake and preen and trim themselves, as it were, into harmony with their surroundings, like fashionable ladies at a tea party.",
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"ref": "2007, Marian Keyes, Anybody Out There:",
"text": "'It's a different kind of pain now,' I'd say. 'Remember when I said it was a kind of hummy ache? Well, it's changed. More darty.'",
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"ref": "2013, Inherit the Dead:",
"text": "His eyes were red but a lot less darty.",
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"ref": "2019, Alex Poppe, Moxie:",
"text": "Her darty eyes land on me.",
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"ref": "2020, Hannah M. Sandoval, Arcamira:",
"text": "The little dog's not half as interesting as you, but those darty eyes of his are always looking out for trouble.",
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"ref": "2020, Edwin Jones, Ted Made Me Write This, page 99:",
"text": "But he was orange, small dog size, very fast and darty, big bushy tail and white underside.",
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"ref": "2022, Jerry Izenberg, \"No Medals for Trying\": Eagles @ Giants:",
"text": "See—he's kind of a darty runner who will try and make you miss.",
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"ref": "2017 May 17, Andrew English, “Old-time machine: Can this 1904 Vauxhall handle Britain in the 21st Century?”, in The Daily Telegraph, London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-08-19:",
"text": "Tiller steering is not for the faint-hearted. It is darty, like a ferret on a lead. Left turns involve pulling the short lever awkwardly into your tummy, and then there's the thought that any kind of impact could involve the driver being skewered like a cocktail sausage.",
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"ref": "2006 August 2, Dan Neil, “A real roadster in its blood”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, L.A.: Los Angeles Times Communications LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-05-10:",
"text": "The steering has good self-centering behavior at high speed but the Sky never loses that alert, slightly darty feel of a roadster.",
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"ref": "2015, Larry Webster, Iconic Cars 5-Book Bundle:",
"text": "“The white M3 is the dartiest of the three; it feels like it's the most on edge and I think for a really good drive it's the most fun,” says Bornhop.",
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"ref": "2019 November 15, Brendan McAleer, “A zippy, trippy celebration for the Mazda MX-5′s 30th birthday”, in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, O.N.: The Woodbridge Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-11-04:",
"text": "The second-generation car is a darty little performance bargain.",
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"ref": "1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], chapter II, in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 22:",
"text": "[…] I'd want you for to know better, you blackguard, than to call my new obercoat a darty one!",
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"ref": "1875, Anne Jane Cupples, Young Bright-eye; or, Charlie Harvey’s First Voyage, page 173:",
"text": "Ver fine goods for ole darty blankets, boot for shoe, black dog for white monkey.",
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"ref": "1915 July, J. W. F., “Bob Sawyer and Ben Allen: Vindicated by a Doctor”, in Bertram Waldrom Matz, editor, The Dickensian, volume 11, number 7, page 188:",
"text": "\"The dartier the cosier\" was no exploded maxim then; indeed before the advent of Listerism, corporal, domestic, or communal cleanliness did not really exist; and in those hydrophobic times the direst punishment you could mete out to an enemy was to put him under the pump, or to duck him in a horse-trough.",
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"ref": "2000, Rufus Juskus, Blueprint, page 61:",
"text": "Yeah, well, you're a darty old fart.",
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"ref": "2020, M. Brooke McCullough, J. E. Boydston, Canarytown City of Grief:",
"text": "Aye, matey, it's a darty job, but me throat got plenty parched.",
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