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5 translations across 4 languages.
15 total sentences available.
Dandolo was constantly in the ditch, sometimes lying with his side against the bank, and had now been so hustled and driven that, had he been on the other side, he would have had no breath left to carry his rider, even in the ruck of the hunt.
Source: wiktionary
‘Here and there among cats one comes across an outstanding superior intellect, just as one does among the ruck of human beings [...].’
Source: wiktionary
Your worth as a couple is not down to how passionate your rucks are—I said rucks—and how frantic the making-up sex is.
Source: wiktionary
Puzzle begged very hard to have the lion-skin taken off him. He said it was too hot and the way it was rucked up on his back was uncomfortable […]
Source: wiktionary
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Closest matches include a mass of, a world of, aggregation, and bobtail, army.
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