on blizzards and infixes

[Dan Goncharoff]

On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:12 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>wrote:

> blizzard


What about this passage:

I started down the edge of the river low grounds, giving out the pursuit of
my elks, and hadn't gone hardly any distance at all, before I saw two more
bucks, very large fellows too. I took a blizzard at one of them, and up he
tumbled.

NARRATIVE
OF THE
LIFE OF DAVID CROCKETT,
OF TEE STATE OF TENNESSEE.
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF
E. L. Carey and A. Hart, 1834

DanG

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