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"Poor chile! ye habn't had nuffin to eat dis day," said she, after they were once within her little dominion and she had kindled the fire; "go into de libr'y, honey, an 'I'll hab ye sumfin' purty quick."
Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught Glance Gaylord
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"Oh, if only dem ugly lions or tigers habn't got him!" sighed Dinah.
The Bobbsey Twins at Meadow Brook Laura Lee Hope
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Hyah's Mas'r Tom habn't had notin to eat more'n a mont; an hyah's de res ob de blubbed breddern ob de Bee see double what been a fastin since dey riz at free clock dis shinin and spicious morn.
Lost in the Fog James De Mille
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But ef you habn't got de grace ob God in you heart,
Hampton and its Students. By Two of its Teachers, Mrs. M. F. Armstrong and Helen W. Ludlow. With Fifty Cabin and Plantation Songs, Arranged by Thomas P. Fenner. Mary Frances 1874
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"Yes, Miss, Ise alluz t'ought Miss Zoe hab pretty manners and a pretty face," replied Aunt Phillis; "but dere is ladies what habn't none, an 'doan' git pleased wid nuffin 'nor nobody, an eayn't stan' no misery nowhars 'bout deirselves, but jes 'keep frettin' and concessantly displainin ''bout dis t'ing and dat, like dey hasn't got nuffin' to be thankful for."
Elsie's Kith and Kin Martha Finley 1868
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She got quality blood in her vein, shuah, but habn't got neah 'nuff.
The Earth Trembled Edward Payson Roe 1863
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"Well now, honey, I habn't had a bite nudder, an 'I'se gwine to take dinneh heah ef you'se willin'."
The Earth Trembled Edward Payson Roe 1863
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I can't be 'ligious long o' you, an 'if you got' ligion I habn't.
The Earth Trembled Edward Payson Roe 1863
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"I reckon dar's one dar if he done habn't leabe yisterday."
Stand By The Union Oliver Optic 1859
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"Ain't dey our Massers, and habn't dey dar own way in ebery ting?"
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