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n. One or more locks of curly hair.
Usage examples of "curlies".
Maybe it was because she had bonded with her snocle instead of to dogs or cats or curlies, or maybe Dinah was just an unusually telepathic dog.
She could have used one of the curlies or the comm unit or something to get her back to the village.
When the curlies stopped beside them, he lifted Yana to the back of one before he vaulted astride the other.
She saw no dogs, no curlies, nothing except one lone marmalade cat trying to catch what warmth it could on a plascrete roof.
Track cats lounged by the doors and on top of the roof and the curlies grazed in the last of the green fields left by the unusually long, warm summer, now turning to fall.
The curlies' feet churned up mud but soon they too were swimming - curlies were good swimmers.
Once the roots were captured, the curlies turned snouts up, pumped with their front legs and were back on the surface, munching their catch.
Right now, all the curlies are busy with them hunters that keep swarmin' in like summer bite-hards.
At daylight, everyone went ashore, dressed, and walked limply home except Sean and Yana, who rode double on one of the curlies, following Bunny and the village girls, who strewed flower petals and seeds on the path before them.
Track-cats lounged by the doors and on top of the roof, and the curlies grazed in the last of the green fields left by the unusually long, warm summer, now turning to fall.
Sean and Yana had been riding toward SpaceBase and were just in sight of the standing stones the planet had made of the landing field when suddenly both curlies shied and whinnied.
Watching the newcomers trying to mount the curlies made 'Cita feel as though she was not the only one who was ignorant and clumsy.
The men who came with metal sticks were angry when they found their sticks gone, especially when Coaxtl and Nanook appeared alongside the curlies to guide them.
They were coated by another layer of snow by the time the Rourke cousins got them to their feet and onto their curlies again.
Sean Shongili was tempted to say "Look what the cats dragged in" when Clodagh, 'Cita, and the Rourkes, with curlies and felines, in escort of the most recently landed visitors, stopped in front of Yana's cabin that afternoon.