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"W'y didn't yuh go in an 'get' im when yuh 'ad' im?" the young fellow asked.
A PIECE OF STEAK 2010
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"W'y didn't yuh go in an 'get' im when yuh 'ad' im?" the young fellow asked.
A PIECE OF STEAK 2010
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"W'y don't you pipe up an 'say somethin'?" he went on, as the other struggled for breath.
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"W'y, sir, it's enuff a'most for to make a cat laugh, sir," he said with
Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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When he had described the pair he wanted, the boy said: "W'y these ere must be the pair wat's just gone to the Toronto boat!"
The Mysteries of Montreal Being Recollections of a Female Physician Charlotte Fuhrer
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"W'y," he answered, "w'y, I just 'membered what you said to Mabel that everybody has two kinds o' thoughts, and one kind _thinks_ you're sick, and the other kind _knows_ you're well, so I thinked about Jamie till I thinked the _know_ thoughts, and _course_ he got well then."
The Right Knock A Story Helen Van-Anderson
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W'y, this yeah ve'y mawnin 'I banked nigh on to a thousan' dollehs fu 'de young boss.
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But with a great big boy like you taggin 'on -- W'y, say, you'd queer her with them English managers right off.
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W'y, I miss his yell o '"Gran'pap!" as I'd miss the whipperwill!
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W'y, gentlefellows, thar'd nevyar been a ruffian, ef et hedn't been fer ther cussed Injun tribe -- not
Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler
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