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  • _His_ bellowses is sound enough -- ez I'm a livin 'creeter,

    Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I Various 1900

  • "And like a sheet it'll come," replied Dow, "and the deil'll blaw it about wi 'his biggest bellowses."

    The Little Minister 1898

  • _His_ bellowses is sound enough, -- ez I'm a livin 'creeter,

    The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

  • _His_ bellowses is sound enough, -- ez I 'm a livin' creeter,

    The Biglow Papers James Russell Lowell 1855

  • 'A'll gang after 't, then, for a'm like a pair o' bellowses wi 't' wind out; just two flat sides wi 'nowt betwixt.'

    Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • 'A'll gang after 't, then, for a'm like a pair o' bellowses wi 't' wind out; just two flat sides wi 'nowt betwixt.'

    Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

  • Keg of 20 lbs. and an adequate proportion of lead which had been laid by to be buryed in the large Cash. we now scelected the articles to be deposited in this cash which consisted of 2 best falling axes, one auger, a set of plains, some files, blacksmiths bellowses and hammers

    The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 Meriwether Lewis 1791

  • "You can't never tell what might happen," the young man observed enigmatically; "the bellowses wear out dreadful quick, the keys work loose like, and then they might stop making them.

    Mountain Blood A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

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