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Examples
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"Call the poor ramblin 'lightnin'-rod back," suggested a kindly puncher.
Sundown Slim Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909
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I wants cake when I'm hungry, "lightnin '" when I'm dry
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I wants cake when I'm hungry, "lightnin '" when I'm dry
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It says in the description that the wings can be removed... it might be kind fun to mount it on a stand and play it upright, fretted... you'd lose the cheesy wings but keep the rockin' lightnin' bolts...
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I mind I was sittin 'by a hayrick of Mr. Burke's -- that was long afore he was lamed by that terrible horse o' his -- and ponderin 'on that heathen name, when all at once it comed to me like a flash o' lightnin '.
In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India Herbert Strang
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'The house has been struck wi' lightnin ', I'm certain.'
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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"Wal, the 'doant; the' luk wusa then thet: they'm bottled up thunder an 'lightnin', an 'ef the' cum down har, they'll chaw ye all ter hash."
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore
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Something about livin 'lightnin' and balls of fire.
The Whispering Spheres Russell Robert Winterbotham
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"Ah'd like to see any goddam barrage do the damage one of our thunder an 'lightnin' storms'll do," shouted Chris.
Three Soldiers John Dos Passos 1933
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Then, one mornin ', while we was all in school, a big storm come up, thunder an' lightnin 'an' all.
The Boy With the U.S. Census Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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