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from The Century Dictionary.
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come , 3.
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Examples
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The country is generally undulating and fertile, with occasional mountain ranges, of which the Comeraghs are rendered especially interesting and picturesque by the deep "cooms," embosoming tarns, which give them their name.
The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway Robert Lloyd Praeger 1909
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` Gyp 'on this starts barkin' loike mad at the blissid cockatoo; whin down cooms Masther Jocko fur to have his share in the foight.
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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Well, now, I've been and learned what ye wanted so much; and first cooms the praste and makes a big fuss, and then you, mother, spake as if I had thried to anger in the room o 'plasing ye.
Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and her Irish Nurse Anonymous
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"She weel run against us eef she cooms thees way."
The Cruise of the Dry Dock T. S. Stribling 1923
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They get what they can outer yo ', but yo' mustn't look for nothin 'back, when th' pinch cooms.
The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Eugene O'Neill 1920
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Happen A'd best tidy masel 'up too against Parson cooms.
The Atlantic Book of Modern Plays Eugene O'Neill 1920
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"I were reachin 'after a sea-gurt with a broke wing and down I cooms!"
The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story Angela Brazil 1907
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Jack und all dose vat cooms und eats mine pies und shpoils mine pread und makes deirselves fools all der time.
The Happy Family B. M. Bower 1905
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Looök thou theer wheer Wrigglesby beck cooms out by the 'ill!
The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902
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An 'at lung length it cooms out' at she'd been thrawin 'sheep's eyes, as
Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900
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