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- verb Chinese
Eye dialect spelling offrighten . - verb Chinese
Eye dialect spelling offrightened .
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Examples
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"But plilates see 'em pletty white girl," he shrugged his shoulders and shook his head dubiously, "then old Sing no can flighten 'em 'way."
The Monster Men Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912
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'Oh, mamma, mamma -- oh, mummy,' he said, and by this time he was howling, of course, 'I never meant to flighten you.
Peterkin Mrs. Molesworth 1880
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I never meant to flighten you, mamma, 'he repeated again, his voice growing plaintive.
Peterkin Mrs. Molesworth 1880
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"Allee too velly much flighten, and lun away from foleign devil sailor and maline."
Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser George Manville Fenn 1870
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Me so flighten me know nothin ', then me scleam e-e-e-e so loud, and lun at bear till bear get scared too and lun away. "
Stories of California Ella M. Sexton
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He feel velly much flighten all a same, as if big-button mandalin get in him boat. "
Blue Jackets The Log of the Teaser George Manville Fenn 1870
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"My darring," he whispers, "I know dis you firss time and you berry flighten.
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"My darring," he whispers, "I know dis you firss time and you berry flighten.
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