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"Wa'n't lookin 'for me yit-a-while, was ye?" he asked.
The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day Harriet Stark
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An 'I tole 'em,' Wa'n't I 'count good many years ago?'
A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland
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Wa'n't (it was not) long after he got back dat he went stone blind.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration
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"Wa'n't your name Rose Rollins afore you was jined to the vagabond, -- wagabond, that is to say, -- afore you was dethroned; and didn't you live in Fust Street, opposite them old tenement housen knowed as Baker's Row?"
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various
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My! Wa'n't you never scart and wished you'd stayed t 'home?
The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Eugene O'Neill 1920
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Wa'n't I glad to see you standin 'there ... get along, Jess!
Understood Betsy 1917
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"Wa'n't our tree good enough?" she demanded hotly.
Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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"Wa'n't it just like that _do_-less Lem Warren, not even to leave me foot-free when he died, but a baby coming!"
Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
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Wa'n't teasin 'for your old job back again, was you, Al?
The Portygee Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Wa'n't anything more'n I might have looked for, of course.
Torchy Sewell Ford 1907
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