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help a lame dog over a stile

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help a lame dog over a stile

obsolete To help or assist someone in need in some fundamental or basic way. He has so much money that it would be no effort at all for him to help a lame dog over a stile, but the man is adamant that not a penny of his fortune be used toward charity of any kind. I'm grateful every day that my grandparents took me in when I could have wound up in an orphanage. They certainly helped a lame dog over a stile. Help a lame dog over a stile once in awhile. It's not like you don't have the means to, Reginald.
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help a lame dog over a stile

come to the aid of a person in need.
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'Stile is fully committed to the country and our customers and to provide them with the highest quality locally produced tiles.
'We already have ISO Certification and now with the quality endorsement from Cento Ceramico's highly reputable lab we are proud to manufacture and present European and International standard tiles to our Pakistani consumers', said CEO Stile Masood Jaffery.
At the right hand bend we continue ahead beyond the stile and metal field gate to cross another stile in the left hand corner of the field.
On the inside, the Stile is basic but well- built and one can see that Ashok Leyland has made an effort to offer a good quality product.
Turn left immediately before the hotel, passing cottages on right, then over a stile on right, next to the stream.
Continue along the top edge of the valley to climb a stile. About 100yds further on, turn left over a stile in a field corner and continue along the track, which bears right to another stile.
Organiser of the day and collator of a huge collection of memorabilia is Stile Common Nursery and Infants School learning mentor Jill Mellor.
Follow the fence on the right to the end of the field and turn right over the stile and proceed to enter the wood ahead and continue along the avenue to exit on to a lane in Hints.
About 100 yards beyond this footpath turn right, ascend the roadside bank and go over a stile then continue by diagonally crossing a farm field towards its hedge.
Stile BK was founded in 2004 by designer Behrouz Kolahi, whose three decades of experience span the fields of Oriental rugs, textiles design and architecture.
Cross this stile and a further three stiles (2), roughly heading in the same direction (the hedge changes from being on your right to your left after crossing the last stile), until you come to a metal gate.
The path through the wood is well marked and you should notice a stile on your right offering a short cut to the Tanfield Railway Path.
Locate the stile on the post (wide side of stile board facing the inner face of the post so the outer faces of both gate- and fence-infill boards are even).
Continuing ahead to a stile, a wall lines our righthand side and there are two more stiles before we turn right along a wide track that soon joins the Cleveland Way.
In a few yards, keep left at the fork and at the end of the houses a stile on the left gives access to a ginnel, which drops to a road.
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