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There was a large closet out of the southwest room, where she could sleep, and she could be made very useful, taking steps, and running "arrants" for her.
The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902
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There was a large closet out of the southwest room, where she could sleep, and she could be made very useful, taking steps, and running "arrants" for her.
The Pot of Gold And Other Stories Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891
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Thin, there's a chore boy, as runs arrants; an 'sometimes a sewin' woman; an 'often the caterer man's dagoes.
Vicky Van Carolyn Wells 1902
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I goes out an 'picks cotton in de fall, an' I does arrants an 'little jobs roun' de house fer folks w'at
The Colonel's Dream 1895
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"Now you take 'em and git out, that's a good boy, an 'be quick, 'cause I've got some more arrants to do, an' I'm a-goin 'to try to come to your show, Joel, seein' you've invited me so pretty."
The Adventures of Joel Pepper Margaret Sidney 1884
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"Is it me that would be runnin 'arrants to the King of All Ireland,"
Fairies and Folk of Ireland William Henry Frost 1882
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You know Sophrony would n't send anybody on such an arrant; and you know I a'n't a person to do such arrants, or be made a cat's-paw of by anybody.
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"But," continued Prosper, "I oughter remember suthin about our old times -- runnin 'arrants for you, and bringin' in the wood o 'frosty mornin's, and you givin' me hot doughnuts," suggested Prosper dubiously.
Trent's Trust, and Other Stories Bret Harte 1869
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State raoun her -- coming and going here wid you, and trotting on yo'r arrants -- and yo 'ask dat!
Sally Dows Bret Harte 1869
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Page 62 miles, where I used to go on arrants, says to me one day, 'Peter, where did you come from?'
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