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  • Basically it's adone deal according to the MSM and press.

    Poll: As Conventions Approach, Dems Trouncing GOP In Image, Party I.D. 2009

  • Miss Liddy had like to have run away with a player-man, and young master and he would adone themselves a mischief; but the, squire applied to the mare, and they were, bound over. —

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

  • Sussex damsel says, "Oh! do adone," she means you to go on; but when she says, "Adone-do," you must leave off immediately.

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

  • _I have adone_, _I have a had_, are examples of the first; and

    The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings

  • "'Tis Betsy Croot adone it, the old rat I'll put a spell on her, see if I don't."

    The Chronicles of Clovis 1870-1916 Saki 1893

  • Polly Hopley, dressed in her best, suffered herself to be dragged in, and then, after whispering, "Do adone, do, Cook," began to make bobs and courtesies to everybody in turn.

    Burr Junior George Manville Fenn 1870

  • He was pleased to have the adone -- [Corresponding to the rank of adjutant.] -- and subaltern officers who had been with him, the stern warriors, with whom he had shared everything in war and peace, in want and privation, show so plainly the pain of parting.

    Joshua — Complete Georg Ebers 1867

  • He was pleased to have the adone -- [Corresponding to the rank of adjutant.] -- and subaltern officers who had been with him, the stern warriors, with whom he had shared everything in war and peace, in want and privation, show so plainly the pain of parting.

    Joshua — Volume 2 Georg Ebers 1867

  • He was pleased to have the adone -- [Corresponding to the rank of adjutant.] -- and subaltern officers who had been with him, the stern warriors, with whom he had shared everything in war and peace, in want and privation, show so plainly the pain of parting.

    Joshua — Volume 2 Georg Ebers 1867

  • He was pleased to have the adone -- [Corresponding to the rank of adjutant.] -- and subaltern officers who had been with him, the stern warriors, with whom he had shared everything in war and peace, in want and privation, show so plainly the pain of parting.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

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