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And while we're talking disposable income going to a good cause, Laura only needs $300 to qualify to walk in the 3-Day next month to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation - g'wan and give her some dosh, and get lots of neat thank-you gifties in return!
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"Aw, g'wan," we could hear one of the burly fellows saying, at same time shoving the Major back as though he were a little boy.
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"O, g'wan way f'm me, man; I got dese white fo'ks bizness ter ten 'ter."
Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. Jack Thorne
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"Sure the Lieutenant'll niver be thinkin 'to g'wan alone -- widout me?" and with all the Sergeant's respect for his superiors, it took the Lieutenant ten valuable minutes to get the man started back, shaking his head and muttering forebodings, to the camp.
Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels
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"You're tired, and you're a wee bit nervous; so g'wan," said T. A., ever so gently, and kissed his wife, "g'wan; get out of here!"
Emma McChesney and Co. Edna Ferber 1926
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He learned there was little good in saying, "Aw, g'wan!" to a dapper young lieutenant if they clapped you into the guard-house for saying it.
Cheerful—By Request Edna Ferber 1926
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For one is at last enabled, under these propitious circumstances, to achieve the impossible, to control and manipulate the void and the invisible, to obey that unforgotten advice of one's youth, "Oh, g'wan -- crawl into a hole and pull the hole in after you!"
Edge of the Jungle William Beebe 1919
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I heard no more of him save from a lady with blond, curly hair an 'a face done in water-colors, who called at my office one day to ask about him, an' who proved to my satisfaction that she was his wife, an 'who remarked with real, patrician accent when I told her the truth about him:' Ah, g'wan, yer kiddin 'me.'
Keeping up with Lizzie Irving Bacheller 1904
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"Naw," said Clinch, "g'wan back to the Inn. I can't bother with you folks to-night."
The Flaming Jewel 1899
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"Naw," said Clinch, "g'wan back to the Inn. I can't bother with you folks to-night."
The Flaming Jewel 1899
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