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The cry sounded by hunters upon sighting the fox as it breaks from cover. Also:A dark grayish yellowish brown that is very slightly deeper than lama or bison and slightly lighter than Congo.

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  • Depressingly, the signs are that he is to be unleashed again as the Tories cry tallyho against the new treaty.
  • Except for a few seconds on the dive-bomb run itself, he must maintain tallyho, or visual contact with all his flight-mates.
  • We went out to Jarvis field on a tallyho from Boston, and I recall how eagerly we dashed upon the field, anxious for the scrap to begin.
  • "He flies a gate beyant any living sowl I iver seed, and his tallyho, my jewel -- 'twould do y'er heart good to hear his tallyho!" said my lord's huntsman.
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