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  • But tonight I be'n a-stanin 'in de dark alley ever sence night come, waitin' for you to go by.

    Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

  • "Dad blame dat revival, I wisht it had a be'n put off till tomorrow!"

    Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

  • "En dat po 'boy dat you's be'n a-kickin' en a-cuffin 'today is Percy Driscoll's son en yo' _marster_ --"

    Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

  • Dat man dat bought me ain't a bad man; he's good enough, as planters goes; en if he could a had his way I'd a be'n a house servant in his fambly en be'n comfortable: but his wife she was a Yank, en not right down good lookin ', en she riz up agin me straight off; so den dey sent me out to de quarter mongst de common fiel han's.

    Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

  • 'Dolphus he skeered me nigh to death wif his stuttering story as how my chile be'n in de mill-pond.

    The Chums of Scranton High Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight Donald Ferguson

  • He'd be'n all right only he got mixed up with a string o 'lumber that was a-comin' down, an 'so he had to go to the hospital.

    The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

  • "I don't often remember all this," says she, after a little, "but las 'spring it all flushed over me; an' w'en I heerd heow Emerline'd be'n sick, -- I hear a gre't many things ye do 'no' nothin 'abeout, children, -- I thought I'd tell her, fust time I see her."

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

  • I'll see that they ain't a scratch on it; an 'you can put it in the warehouse, an' they'll never know it's be'n away. '

    The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

  • Here's Jim Cal be'n rarin 'around here like a chicken with its head off' caze Huldy run away with Creed Bonbright, and here

    Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan

  • If you'd be'n here when they started, likely they'd be'n glad to accommodate you.

    The Rim of the Desert Ada Woodruff Anderson

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