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She was runnin 'back an' forth an 'explainin' as it was n't for want o 'stirrin', for she stirred it herself, when Sam
Susan Clegg and a Man in the House Anne Warner 1891
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Ye'll hae the job o 'explainin' to the Colonel whaur ye got that second-lootenant's uniform. "
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, February 23, 1916 Various 1898
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Well, it was suthin 'like this, ez he was explainin' it to me.
CHAPTER 16 2010
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Using the same logic as you just did, I could argue that the fact that the economy in buffalo was horrible for most of the 1990s was "an interesting data point that needs some explainin '" to all the economists who tell us that we were in a boom over that time.
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Maybe I could even tap in a wee suicide note on the computer there, explainin 'all the evil, nasty things you've been up to.
It's October, 1956. Shelagh Power-Chopra 2010
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PS. if this cake post gets taken down, I swear, you two will have some explainin' to do!
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Mary explainin 'to Martha, "Darlin', look at the river deep and the water wide "
Taj Mahal Lyrics 2009
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I'm in México so the explainin how can someone this young can be married i'm 23, i got married at 22, girls don't get married this young around here anymore then how i could i be married to an American and to top it all a Soldier who is deployed.
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I doan tink I am explainin dis well, butt dat it is teh tip of an iceberg.
pwning ur elders - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Maybe I could even tap in a wee suicide note on the computer there, explainin 'all the evil, nasty things you've been up to.
Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2005
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