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Examples
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Maybe they just need a little confidence boostin 'by Ms. Palin.
Scott Blakeman: Palin Forgets Everything She Memorized Five Minutes After Debate 2009
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Want the country to have a boostin the econemy for cheaper then the baileout. there are 305.170,945 people in the usa instead of giving AIG all this money give 1 million to each person un the usa so they can payoff there homes and boost the economy and still leave the goverment with money to work with what is so hard about this .
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"There was the Lootenant boostin the Major out of the trench"
"Same old Bill, eh Mable!" Edward Streeter 1933
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An there was the Lootenant boostin the Major out of the trench an a lot of doboys with their rifles in there hands hurryin along the top an disappearin in the fog.
"Same old Bill, eh Mable!" Edward Streeter 1933
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That's what led me to insist on boostin 'the ante up to twenty-five hundred, I guess; for it didn't look like he could go on pullin' that down for many years more.
Shorty McCabe on the Job Sewell Ford 1907
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We had that straight from Mrs. Adams, who wa'n't much for boostin 'the fam'ly.
Shorty McCabe on the Job Sewell Ford 1907
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And here I'd been boostin 'the Rowley proposition to Mr. Robert good and hard, almost gettin' him enthusiastic over it!
Torchy, Private Sec. Sewell Ford 1907
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Meanwhile Josh had been listenin 'to Pinckney boostin' the
Shorty McCabe on the Job Sewell Ford 1907
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The cold-storage people are boostin 'their schedules every day.
The House of Torchy Sewell Ford 1907
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He didn't always wait for the wholesaler to start the boostin ', either.
The House of Torchy Sewell Ford 1907
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