comp'ny

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Ain't no Guild merc comp'ny wud fight 'gainst Valdemar!

Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001
Ain't no Guild merc comp'ny wud fight 'gainst Valdemar!

Take A Thief Lackey, Mercedes 2001
There's some half-breed girls, an 'full-bloods too, that ain't so bad comp'ny as you'd think.

When the Grass Grew Long 1996
She had promised one man her "comp'ny" and had come with another.

Lodusky 1995
Well, you's gwine into my comp'ny, en I's gwine to fill de bill.

Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955
You ain't gwine to steal a pin -- 'ca'se it ain't safe no mo'; en you ain't gwine into no bad comp'ny -- not even once, you understand; en you ain't gwine to drink a drop -- nary a single drop; en you ain't gwine to gamble one single gamble -- not one!

Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955
_Mailfast's_ comp'ny -- so 'tis said -- was driven far into the pulpy, grassy sea.

Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper
It seems a little unpolite to wear it in my ears, with you here keeping me comp'ny.

Rebecca Mary Annie Hamilton Donnell
She been keepin 'comp'ny wid young Swiggsy, an' she wont promise not ter.

Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life Lemuel Ely Quigg
"I read once of a comp'ny putting two locomotives on one track an 'running 'em full-tilt together so's to get a picture of the smashup."

Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper