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  • "And also," pursued the lady, "I billieve tha'z a cowardly -- to run away from those sick."

    Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884

  • I billieve anybody can't die till his time come '.

    Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884

  • "You couldn 'billieve me iv I tell you w'at dat man pur_pose_ to do!"

    Madame Delphine George Washington Cable 1884

  • ` ` You couldn 'billieve me iv I tell you w'at dat man purpose to do!' '

    Old Creole Days 1879

  • "Mo 'better, I billieve," continued her mother, "we continue on the boat and ourselve 'nurse those sick.

    Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884

  • "And also I billieve, me -- like they say -- to get scare '-- tha'z the _sure_ way to catch that kind of sicknezz.

    Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884

  • "And I billieve," persisted madame, "to continue on the boat, tha'z also the mo 'safe.

    Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884

  • "And she prod-uce 'a piece paper _fill_' with memorandum 'of compliment' he's say to her one time and other, what she's wrote down whiles frezh spoken and what she billieve 'are proof that he's in love to her and inten' to make his proposition so soon he's got good sign 'he'll be accept'.

    The Flower of the Chapdelaines George Washington Cable 1884

  • Me, I billieve in heaven they are _waiting impatiently_ for that marriage. "

    The Flower of the Chapdelaines George Washington Cable 1884

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