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  • You've begun in toime, so you have, and, if you kape on, you can get a lot of it done before you come to the place where you can do what you loike, such as kapin 'a bank and that.

    The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger

  • An 'me livin' on an 'kapin' clear av clink, not by my own good conduck, but the kindness av some orf'cer-bhoy young enough to be son to me!

    Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • An 'me livin' on an 'kapin' clear av clink, not by my own good conduck, but the kindness av some orf'cer-bhoy young enough to be son to me!

    Soldier Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • An 'me livin' on an 'kapin' clear av clink, not by my own good conduck, but the kindness av some orf'cer-bhoy young enough to be son to me!

    Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • We replied promptly that it was not the hour for toddy, but the hour for baths, with us, and the decrepit and very sleepy night porter departed to wake the cook and build the fire; advising me first, in a friendly way, to take the hearth brush that was 'kapin' the windy up, and rap on the wall if I needed annything more. '

    Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • "I'll make your life Hell to you," sez he, "for attempted murdher an 'kapin' your rifle onproperly.

    Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • "There's toimes to be spakin ', and toimes to be kapin' still," she said.

    The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger

  • "Will you be makin 'the beds and kapin' things shinin 'and doin' the cookin 'for us all?"

    The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger

  • But there's things about cookin 'that anybody can attind to, such as havin' kettles and pans clean, and kapin 'the fire up when it's needed, and not roastin' a body's brains out when it ain't needed.

    The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger

  • "Yea, 'tis the same as an insult for all the neighbors to take notice of, whin a gurrl ez hez been kapin 'company with a man fur goin' on two years, walks by him now with her nose in the air, lek wan wuz too good to be shpakin 'with the praste himself."

    Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Maud Wilder Goodwin

  • The group digs them up with metal rods, called kapins, gently moving the angular basalt rocks back and forth to get at the plant.

    Northwest tribal women and girls gather wild celery amid challenges Anna King 2023

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