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  • "Now this is what I call livin 'high," said Johnny, in a choking voice, as he tried to eat pea-nuts, bologna sausage, and crackers, all at the same time.

    Left Behind or, Ten Days a Newsboy James Otis 1880

  • Summertime, and the livin is easy – for the Clintons who made $108 million after decamping from the White House.

    Clinton hits Obama directly in new ad 2008

  • Wal, wal; yeh must n't be carried away by these 'ere glories: they 's transitory, arter all: ye must jest come right daown to plain livin'.

    Oldtown Folks 1869

  • We went to Chester, and I became owner of the famous 'livin'-waggin' coveted (according to Sinfi) by the great personage whom, on account of his name, she always spoke of as a rich, powerful, but mysterious and invisible Welshman.

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

  • Wooden bunks to sleep in, batmen to bring 'em 'ot water fer shavin' in the mornin ', all the fags they wants, -- Blimy, I wonder wot they calls livin' 'igh? "

    Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army James Norman Hall 1919

  • Now the rhythm o their livin was the clackin o the laims

    Women of Dundee 2000

  • Whar 'he says we'll bide taegether, whiles he'll mak a livin' wi 'his body an the sea,

    Partans in His Creel 1997

  • "And I never did like the idea of livin 'in a two-family house," declared Hephzy.

    Kent Knowles: Quahaug Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • In their hands it is transformed from the idea of livin a life in compliance with God's will to one of blind obedience to those who abuse their hierarchical authority to violate other key components of natural law such as distributive justice.

    Talk To Action 2010

  • In their hands it is transformed from the idea of livin a life in compliance with God's will to one of blind obedience to those who abuse their hierarchical authority to violate other key components of natural law such as distributive justice.

    Talk To Action 2010

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