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Thine short calves and thighmeat cantilevered upon high-broughten heels?
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"Now's de time, ole Gray," "show your broughten up, ole boy," "let de gemman see you swim, ole feller," and similar remarks proceeded rapidly from the darky, who all the time avoided touching the reins.
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore
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[Illustration: I didn't feel so sorry for him when we opened the boxes they had broughten us (p. 65).]
Treat 'em Rough Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer Ring Lardner 1909
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"Here, Shaws!" she cried, "keek out of the window and see what I have broughten you."
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Look round town-so rich as 'tis-and see the numbers o' people as has been broughten into bein heer, fur to weave, an 'to card, an' to piece out a livin ', aw the same one way, somehows, 'twixt their cradles and their graves.
Hard Times 1876
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The Lord forgive me, have I broughten forth a brand for the burning, a fagot for hell-fire? '
Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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"Here, Shaws!" she cried, "keek out of the window and see what I have broughten you."
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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"Here, Shaws!" she cried, "keek out of the window and see what I have broughten you."
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Look round town - so rich as 'tis - and see the numbers o 'people as has been broughten into bein heer, fur to weave, an' to card, an 'to piece out a livin', aw the same one way, somehows, 'twixt their cradles and their graves.
Hard Times 1868
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Look round town - so rich as 'tis - and see the numbers o 'people as has been broughten into bein heer, fur to weave, an' to card, an 'to piece out a livin', aw the same one way, somehows, 'twixt their cradles and their graves.
Hard Times Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1868
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