Do we say firry or furry

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After this, when he was quite comfortable, and no longer afraid, he heard a strange small cry from the furry bundle on the sledge that brought his head up with a jerk.

Pierre Radisson emptied the sledge of everything but the tent, blankets, food and the furry nest for baby Joan.

Soon he could reach out, stiff-legged and cautious, and touch the furry thing that was not yet dead.

Soft-footed, searching still for signs of the furry enemies who had invaded their domain, Kazan slipped along the creek.

All the roads were thick with Austrian equipment thrown away in the confusion of departure, rifles, steel helmets (grotesquely shaped, like high-crowned bowler hats), ammunition, coats, packs (handsomely got up, with furry exteriors), mail bags, maps, office stores, tin despatch boxes, photographs of blonde girls, bayonets, hand bombs, ...

And down they drop; appears his dainty skin, Fair as the furry coat of whitest ermilin.

"I'm genuinely sorry for the feathered and furry game of the woods when the Great Hunter breaks loose with that terrible pump-gun.

When she expends a few sous on the cutting of her boy's hair, she has it cropped until his cranium resembles the soft, furry skin of a mole, thus rendering further outlay in this respect unlikely for months.

At last his little round, furry head was out, and he looked about him.

THE COAT should be very dense, the outer coat harsh to the touch, the inner or under coat soft, furry, and very close, so close as almost to hide the skin.

Dachshunds hunt well in a pack, and, though it is not their recognised vocation, they can be successfully used on hare, on fox, and any form of vermin that wears a furry coat.

Poor Josef Viaud and old Bettine were quite alone this Christmas Eve, save for the Saint Bernard who was stretched out before the fire, covering half the floor with his huge bulk, like a furry rug.

And he is a nice furry little enthusiastic thing; like a faun, rather; exciting to play with of course.

Paula, bending over that furry faun-like head, reading off the same score with him, responding to the same emotions from the music.... Fantastic, of course.

She sped across the marble floor of the great tapestry hall as a little, furry wild animal darts across an open space in the woods.

Allen's white shirts grew fringy at the edges with fatigue-duty, and his large hands were furry at the fingers with much soap.

Sometimes it was the furry face of a raccoon peeping out from some tree-cleft, or an otter swimming under the overhanging brushwood with the gleam of a white fish in its mouth.

And like his mind his outward form appear'd, When, issuing naked, to the wondering herd, He charm'd their eyes; and, for they loved, they fear'd: Not arm'd with horns of arbitrary might, Or claws to seize their furry spoils in fight,

20 Because the Lion's peace was now proclaim'd: The wary savage would not give offence, To forfeit the protection of her prince; But watch'd the time her vengeance to complete, When all her furry sons in frequent senate met; Meanwhile she quench'd her fury at the flood, And with a lenten salad cool'd her blood.

They were rabbits like himself, but quite furry and brand-new.

"Ho!" said the furry rabbit.

"Can you hop on your hind legs?" asked the furry rabbit.

she cried, and assailed the tall figure before her with a furry embrace, which was returned with a right good will.

Motor coats of rich fur, furry hats and caps, floating silken veils, muffs, rugswherever they came from they could not have minded coming, sharp as was the November air outside, as the boys, who had been hanging about the house since the first approach of twilight, well knew.

Peering up with my half-blinded eyes I saw a huge red furry animal coming, half obscured by brush.

Do we say   firry   or  furry