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"Have you both been baptized accordin 'to the rites o' the church?"
Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels
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"Have you both been baptized accordin 'to the rites o' the church?"
Sonny, a Christmas Guest Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886
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Guy's name is Valdi Berzins, an 'accordin' to the embassy he had somethin 'to do with the Latvian mission to the UN, but nothin' too important.
The Burglar On The Prowl Block, Lawrence 2004
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Shang's pathetic appeal for Jim's life clearly won outright more than half the jury, but there were several who, while their sympathies were with Jim, "'lowed they'd have to bring a verdic' accordin 'to the evidence."
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson
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You ain't around to offer suggestions an 'as it's a take-it-or-leave-it proposition an' two-thirds o 'the stock is represented in me an' Mac an 'accordin' to your rulin 'the majority's got the decidin' vote, we ups an 'smothers his offer.
Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918
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An 'accordin' to what dad says, Kelso pulled first.
The Range Boss Charles Alden Seltzer 1908
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Y'owe it to yer intelligence to see all the different forms of animal life the good Lord has created, behavin 'accordin' to their kind, and then come back to your own, thankin 'Gawd you're not as they are.
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So I saved myself from State Prison by dividin 'accordin' to the map, and then I sent
The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900
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"That's what my boys was brought up to think, 'n they're actin' accordin '."
Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book Anna Fuller 1884
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The trouble is that the party's been chasm 'after theories and stayin' up nights readin 'books instead of studyin' human nature and actin 'accordin', as I've advised in tellin 'how to hold your district.
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon George Washington Plunkitt 1883
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