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- phrase
Eye dialect spelling ofisn’t .
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Examples
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If she can speak so well of my poor Hal, she must be the best girl living! and she shall have him ... yes, she shall have him, if she's a mind to him; and I don't care if she i'n't worth a groat; she's niece to my old friend; that's better. '
Camilla 2008
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It's what I can't bear; it i'n't doing a thing handsomely.
Camilla 2008
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He knows every honest heart will pity him, if it's true; and if it i'n't, he is too much a man of honour not to complain all one; he knows how agreeable it is to the dear creatures; they always take it for a compliment. '
Camilla 2008
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And, if a man i'n't upon his guard, he may be run down for an old dotard, before he knows where he is, and see his son setting up for a member of parliament, making laws for him.
Camilla 2008
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I know she's to have it all at your demise; but that i'n't the bird in the hand.
Camilla 2008
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'Why you've no nous, Mr. Dubster; Mrs. Purdle's a very good sort of woman and the best friend I have in the world, perhaps, at the bottom; but she i'n't a sort of person to talk of before gentlefolks.
Camilla 2008
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'Why, your honour, if it i'n't owing to something of that sort, why does he behave so unaccountable?
Camilla 2008
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She sat still, and ruminating till Mrs. Mittin, who without scruple had taken a full inventory of the contents of the purse, exclaimed: 'La! my dear, why sure I hope that i'n't all you've got left?'
Camilla 2008
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'He delivers your sandwiches, i'n't that the case?'
With No One as Witness George, Elizabeth 2005
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Your husband i'n't waiting out there for some baldheaded lady with a pretty new face.
With No One as Witness George, Elizabeth 2005
minerva commented on the word i'n't
For: is not, isn't
October 11, 2007
jennarenn commented on the word i'n't
No it ain't!
October 11, 2007
minerva commented on the word i'n't
Does the business he wants to meet me upon require that it should be at a common friend's?-- A challenge implied; i'n't it, Belford?
Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
December 14, 2007
reesetee commented on the word i'n't
Minerva, this deserves to go on bilby's At Least Two Apostrophes Or Your Money Back list.
December 14, 2007
bilby commented on the word i'n't
A most worthy candidate, so compact!
December 14, 2007