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"Let's keep dark about buyin 'one, and see how many of the creeters will be a besettin' on us to-day."
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) Various 1887
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‘Rum creeters is women,’ said the dirty – faced man, after a pause.
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But the unconscious, though worthy creeters, adwanced in spite of him, Huncle Bill bringing in the old lady grinning on his harm!
The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006
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But the unconscious, though worthy creeters, adwanced in spite of him, Huncle Bill bringing in the old lady grinning on his harm!
Burlesques 2006
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God er mighty gwinter pay yunna well fer yer work, Kurnel, an 'de gost er dem po' murdered creeters gwine ter haunt yo 'in yer sleep.
Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. Jack Thorne
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Well, then, I do -- I _hope_ I _do_ -- forgive 'em; I'll try -- the bloody _creeters_. '
The Old Bell of Independence; Or, Philadelphia in 1776 Henry C. Watson
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Beth is the best of little creeters, and a sight of help to me, bein so fore - handed and dependable.
Little Women 1921
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She is awful sentimental; I have seen a good many that had it bad, but of all the sentimental creeters I ever did see,
Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Thomas L. Masson 1900
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Sometimes I think the poor creeters has enough to contend with outside without bein 'obliged to fight at home, though it does beat all, my dear, what a terrible exertion 't is for most men to earn a livin'.
At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern Myrtle Reed 1892
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They was all a-eatin 'hay an' straw an 'oats just like the dumb creeters they disdained, an' a-carryin 'wheat an' corn around in their pockets to piece out with between greens.
At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern Myrtle Reed 1892
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