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[...] mukana julkaistiin jokin aika sitten eräiden hänelle kunnioitustaan osoittavien nykymangakojen fanitaidetta.
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"Aw, was plen'y good huntin ', skim', feastin ', singin', lots o 'jokin' once I'd gotten here."
There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972
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That was just the way we'd talked in my dream -- kind of jokin 'an' yet meanin 'somethin', too -- so's you felt all lifted up an 'out o' the ordinary.
Friendship Village Zona Gale 1906
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"Huh! I guess that Rover boy has been a'jokin 'you ag'in, Ricky," said
The Rover Boys in the Air From College Campus to the Clouds Edward Stratemeyer 1896
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He was kind o 'jokin', but I stuck to it that we was as sober as he was.
Little Bobtail or The Wreck of the Penobscot. Oliver Optic 1859
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"I ain 'jokin', Brothah Simon, I ain 'jokin', I's a talkin 'right straightfo'wa'd.
The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889
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"I knows when you is bullyraggin 'me an' say you is goin 'to sen' me back to Virginia, you is jes 'jokin'.
Betty at Fort Blizzard Molly Elliot Seawell 1888
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Aunt Tempy continued, with considerable more animation; "he joke, un joke, but bimeby, he aint feel like no mo 'jokin', un den he up'n say, sezee, dat him un Brer Fox better start out'n take der fammerlies wid um ter town un swap um off for some fresh-groun 'meal; un
Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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Aunt Tempy continued, with considerable more animation; "he joke, un joke, but bimeby, he ain't feel like no mo 'jokin', un den he up'n say, sezee, dat him un Brer Fox better start out'n take der fammerlies wid um ter town un swap um off for some fresh-groun 'meal; un
Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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Never a bit of attention would he pay to the men drinkin 'and smokin' and jokin 'up here at the bar — just fell to on that old book and read it like he'd like to learn everything was in it ...
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