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Examples
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I filt sorry for th 'gintilmin -- him putting up sich a good foight this avening -- so Oi thought if he didn't want to fight, I'd help him pass it off aisy.
The Cruise of the Dry Dock T. S. Stribling 1923
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Good avening, Brother ----; sure, it's a fine avening we're having, is it not?
The White Christmas and other Merry Christmas Plays Walter Ben Hare 1915
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It's me wife that I married at ould man Walsh's this avening.
The Four Million O. Henry 1886
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"That can be lift to Jim," said Mike, "onless his dad imprisses upon him that it won't be healthy for him to talk too freely wid his mouth regarding the sarcus he obsarved this avening."
The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878
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I was what they call _desperate_; so I went into a gintleman's house one avening, without ringing the bell and sending up my card, as in my better days I should have done, you know.
Stories of Many Lands Grace Greenwood 1863
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Her can't get out of an avening now, her hath zent word to me, to tull 'ee.'
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Her can’t get out of an avening now, her hath zent word to me, to tull
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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Dutchy, this is a roight loively avening, Oi do belave, "he chuckled.
Frank Merriwell's Chums Burt L. Standish 1905
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I'm doing yer job for the avening, but you git your wages just the same. "
The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878
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"For the gayety he imparted to this gloomy avening.
The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878
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