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Brer Rabbit b'ilt 'im a straw house, en hit wuz tored down; den he made a house outen pine-tops, en dat went de same way; den he made' im a bark house, en dat wuz raided on, en eve'y time he los 'a
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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Las 'Brer Rabbit got mad, he did, en cust, en den he went off, he did, en got some kyarpinters, en dey b'ilt' im a plank house wid rock foundashuns.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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Las 'Brer Rabbit got mad, he did, en cusst, en den he went off, he did, en got some kyarpinters, en dey b'ilt' im a plank house wid rock foundashuns.
Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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Brer Rabbit b'ilt 'im a straw house, en hit wuz tored down; den he made a house out'n pine-tops, en dat went de same way; den he made' im a bark house, en dat wuz raided on, en eve'y time he los 'a house he los' one er his chilluns.
Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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It was how Retail Intelligence bu ilt a broader mosaic of confidential data points, enabling it to dissect its performance in ways that others couldn ' t.
Insider Trading: The Next Frontier Dennis K. Berman 2010
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He might have been able to pretend otherwise at the time, but now he could see that his career had not been b u ilt on who he was, but on who he knew.
Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000
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Hitherto my whole bent had been towards pale, remote, and evanescent; the water-colour world Louis, the leafy recesses of Malory, l the twilight of Y eats. ilt iron in Malory, the tragedy of contrition, I did not yet at all L
Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955
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My poor dear Mother -- a lady born and bred -- sank by slow degrees to a cawfy-stall, which is now morgidged to the 'ilt, and my eldest Sister, a lovely and accomplished gairl, was artlessly thrown over by a nobleman, to' oom she was engaged to be married, before our reverses overtook us.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 14, 1891 Various
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The old Bat carried her basket, ilt-tsai-î-zîs, by a slender spider's thread.
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[(She sank, covered with g) 9.1 (u) -0.9 (ilt and shame, at the feet of her father; nor could that)] TJ
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