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Examples
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We just lay there by the juniper, while the moon is bright, watch them jugs a'fillin 'in the pale moon light.
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You'll just lay there by the juniper, while the moon is bright, watch them jugs a'fillin ', in the pale moon light.
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In it they do no manner of work, -- except in cases of necessity or mercy, such as fillin 'out diplomas, or when we git crowded jest at the end of a term, or when there is an extry number of poopils, or other
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Sara made her laugh, and laughed with her; and, though neither of them quite knew it, the laughter was as "fillin '" as the meat pies.
A Little Princess 1905
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The story affords about as much food for thought as one of Talmage's plate-matter sermons -- is fully as "fillin '" as drinking the froth out of a pop-bottle, and equally as exhilarating.
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Sara made her laugh, and laughed with her; and, though neither of them quite knew it, the laughter was as "fillin '" as the meat pies.
A Little Princess; being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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An 'I warrant hoo nivver thowt o' fillin 'her pocket wi' tracks by way o 'comfort.
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Drinkin 'so much strong coffee an' a-puckerin 'ob yer stummick up,' stead o 'fillin' ob it out wid bread and meat!
Her Mother's Secret Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859
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a hunk was cut out, jest like I'd always dream of so much -- showin 'a cross-section of rich yellow cake and a fruity-lookin' fillin 'that jest made a man want to give up.
The Spenders A Tale of the Third Generation Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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'll come tae the garden-seat, for the spring flooers are bloomin' bonnie and sweet the noo, an 'fillin' 's a 'wi' hope.
Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878
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