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- phrase obsolete Contraction of
if it .
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Examples
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Horry -- have you forgot his pride, hid always under a nonchalance as if't was nothing?
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You be after catchin 'me short up betwixt ivery word, an' more be token as if't was your own man, instid of mine, ye was worrittin 'about.
Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller
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_ If you aske my opinion, sir, I think your suit sits as well as if't had beene made for you.
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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A name which if't were train'd would spread a mile;
The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley
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Massa was lookin 'at me thar in his night shirt; I see him as cl'ar as if't was done yesterday.
A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences Laura S. Haviland
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Jerrem if't should iver come to Adam's ears: why, he'd have his life if he swung gallows-high for takin 'of it.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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"Count, grannam, count!" she cried imperiously, "and if't is not enough I've my little _churi_ for the first as dare touch me!"
Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Then spake her attendants:/"What if't a stranger were?"
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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When the little girl ran down the hill, the miller said: "Seems as if't would be easy to make Christians out of them two."
The Junior Classics — Volume 6 Old-Fashioned Tales William Patten 1902
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"Hattie's ready an 'willin' to divide the premium, if't comes to her, an 'I guess Mary'd be, put her in the same place."
Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life Alice Brown 1902
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