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								"Well, brother, you're still alive an 'kickin'," he called to me as Chapter 7 2010 
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								I know'd a mule what couldn't live in de mountains 'count o' kickin ''em over, but las' night when you was goin 'good, I says,' If a mule married a cyclone an 'had a boy, he'd be you.' Lady Luck Hugh Wiley 
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								Alive an 'kickin', and go a shrimpin 'when the weather serve. Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants" James Blyth 
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								Him dwell on de life of labor and bravery, in tacklin 'kickin' hosses and mules. Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration 
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								An 'when you turn up alive an' kickin 'you don't notice 'em gittin' out no brass band about it, do you? Prairie Flowers 1921 
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								"Well, brother, you're still alive an 'kickin'," he called to me as Chapter 7 1915 
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								"W'at -- be that the Old Un -- be you alive an 'kickin' yet?" The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915 
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								Good People were dancing in a ring hand in hand, an 'kickin' their heels, an 'the eyes of them glowin' like the eyes of moths; and a chap on the stone, no bigger than the joint of your thumb, playin 'to thim on a bagpipes. 
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								"Now tell me w'at yer mean by wakin 'me an' kickin 'up all this yar row." Frank Merriwell's Bravery Burt L. Standish 1905 
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								She's alive an 'kickin', so that she's jus 'given birth to a kickin' young citizen o 'Berlin, that's what! The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Gerhart Hauptmann 1904 
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