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  • I was afraid half a dozen other people were going to think of "Little Orphant Annie" for Hallowe'en.

    The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano 2006

  • Yes, and you used to read about the Farmer, too -- Will Carleton's farm ballads and legends; Riley's fine verses about the frost on the pumpkin and "Little Orphant Annie" and "Over the Hill to the Poorhouse!"

    Deep Furrows Hopkins Moorhouse

  • An 'Little Orphant Annie an' the whole excited pack

    A Heap O' Livin' 1920

  • Few lyrics have been more widely popular than his "Little Boy Blue" and "Dutch Lullaby"; while Riley's "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Raggedy Man" are equally well known.

    American Men of Mind Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917

  • A pretty young nurse went around the corridors muttering bits of "Orphant Annie" to herself.

    Love Stories Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

  • Little Orphant Annie's come to our house to stay 934

    The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902

  • An 'little Orphant Annie says, when the blaze is blue,

    The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902

  • I didn't like to ask any personal questions about Mrs. Blythe of _Orphant Annie_.

    Mary Ware's Promised Land John Goss 1897

  • "That's just Orphant Annie's extravagant way of putting things," thought

    Mary Ware's Promised Land John Goss 1897

  • Orphant Annie_, with its bewitching warning about the "_Gobble-uns_," and the pathetic _Little Mahala Ashcraft_.

    History of American Literature Reuben Post Halleck 1897

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