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Ef I don't work hard enough now, I 'd like to know, without havin' a boy raound raisin 'gineral Cain.
Oldtown Folks 1869
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Even the "gineral" observed it, and remarked with a sardonic smile --
Twice Bought 1859
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‘Begorra, I’d be better plased.’ says the gineral, says he, ‘to take himself than the Duke iv
The Purcell Papers 2003
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'In the Name av the Father,' sez he; thin he shtopped and looked round; 'and av the Holy Ghost,' sez he, and he shtopped ag'in; 'but where's the Son?' sez he, rising his wice; and begor, 't was like the day of gineral jedgment.
My New Curate P.A. Sheehan
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I heard an Irishman of the "bloody Tinth," and a "darn good regiment, be jabbers," speak up, and say, "Faith, gineral, we'll take up a collection and buy you a batthery, be Jasus."
"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show Sam R. Watkins
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But Mr. Lammeter beats 'em all for shapes; you see he holds his head like a sodger, and he isn't so cushiony as most o 'the oldish gentlefolks, -- they ran fat in gineral; -- and he's got
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various
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Women's wages can't be expected to do more than feed and clothe 'em, as a gineral thing, with
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various
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It's a four-legged gineral is Avenger, with the cunnin 'foresight of a Bonaparte and the cool judgment of a Wellington.'
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson
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Gineral's mess, before he got to be a gineral, you know, bein 'so handy at all sorts of woman's work?
The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger
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"'Twasn't for naught he got made a gineral," commented Mrs. O'Callaghan.
The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger
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