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- noun See
lamantin .
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- noun Alternative form of
lamantin .
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Examples
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Wearing only pyjamas, lamentin' the Obamas..got in the pickup named Red and ran over a head...
BSNYC Friday Fun Quiz! BikeSnobNYC 2008
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And, by God, furst thing you know they ain't anybody to do the fightin 'but the pot-bellies and the orators who want to die but are too old to carry a gun, and so go around lamentin' their age, the furst thing you know, nobody is left but 'em to fight.
Mitch Miller Edgar Lee Masters 1909
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The king was walkin 'one mornin' by the edge of the lake, lamentin 'his cruel fate, and thinkin' o 'drownin' himself, that could get no divarshun in life, when all of a suddint, turnin 'round the corner beyant, who should he meet but a mighty dacent young man comin' up to him.
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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And here you are lamentin 'that there's nothin' at the penitentiary fitten to eat.
The Jucklins A Novel Opie Percival Read 1895
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I know they had, because I heard her ladyship lamentin ', whin we wor in Paris, that she didn't get a letther of introduction to the Impress from Lady Skibbereen.
The Art of Disappearing John Talbot Smith 1889
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The king was walkin 'one mornin' by the edge of the lake, lamentin 'his cruel fate, and thinking of drowning himself, that could get no diversion in life, when all of a sudden, turning round the corner, who should he meet but a mighty decent young man coming up to him.
Celtic Fairy Tales Joseph Jacobs 1885
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The King was walkin 'one mornin' by the edge of the lake, lamentin 'his cruel fate, and thinking of drowning himself, that could get no diversion in life, when all of
Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 Various 1865
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O 'the contrar', the storm was like a freenly cloak til's grief, for upo 'the ro'd he fell a greitin' an 'compleenin' an 'lamentin' lood, jeedgin 'nae doobt, gien he thoucht at a', he micht du as he likit wi 'naebody nigh.
Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864
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Just four days ago, the assembled Vozick-Levinsons were drivin 'down the highway, lamentin' last year's early demise of HBO's
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Just four days ago, the assembled Vozick-Levinsons were drivin 'down the highway, lamentin' last year's early demise of HBO's
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