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Examples
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I thought ye wint away for book-larnin ', he commented, dryly.
CHAPTER I 2010
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That much was predictable once you saw the players, who have clearly not been chosen for either street-smarts or book-larnin'.
John Eskow: The Most Insanely Cruel -- and Zeitgeist-Savvy -- Quiz-Show of All Time John Eskow 2010
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Our heads filled with book-larnin 'we never bothered to differentiate and would always call boiled leaves "spinach" and they'd correct us, "it's greens".
Collard greens, Facebook and Twitter | Homesick Texan Homesick Texan 2008
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That much was predictable once you saw the players, who have clearly not been chosen for either street-smarts or book-larnin'.
John Eskow: The Most Insanely Cruel -- and Zeitgeist-Savvy -- Quiz-Show of All Time John Eskow 2010
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But it does get a little hard for people who shun those "book-larnin' things", whose denial is rooted in things like they never saw no parakeet turn into a fish.
You think because a chimpanzee knows you, he doesn't hate you? Ann Althouse 2009
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I likes me sum sports, not all that thar fancy book-larnin '.
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The rightist view that nobody is any smarter than anybody else and that all of that book-larnin' is nothing but trouble and is never going to be amenable to the freedom of people to choose their own sources of guidance rather than the traditional, generally religious ones that "society" "chose" in the distant and dark past.
Sowell's A Conflict of Visions, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And Sugarfoot had enough "book-larnin'" and an open mind willing to accept the many wonders he might have seen of the Universe, had he tagged along as a Companion.
Archive 2009-03-22 Toby O'B 2009
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On top of that, he's a man of book-larnin' and educated tastes.
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On top of that, he's a man of book-larnin' and educated tastes.
Archive 2006-11-19 2006
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