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Anyhow, bite off a chaw o' tabaccy, have a sip o' some of this hyar corn likker, dig inta some of maw's possum pie, and enjoy some good old fashioned, down-home HILLBILLY COMICS:
Archive 2009-02-01 Brian Hughes 2009
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Anyhow, bite off a chaw o' tabaccy, have a sip o' some of this hyar corn likker, dig inta some of maw's possum pie, and enjoy some good old fashioned, down-home HILLBILLY COMICS:
Hillbilly Comics! Brian Hughes 2009
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There were silvery cables depending from a wide ring around the red maw's opening, and these were also attached to their open-topped cell.
The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981
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"This beats maw's soda biscuit and fat meat gravy!"
Hiram the Young Farmer Burbank L. Todd
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His maw's always empty, but I will say this for the scoundrel -- he gives more than he takes, in the long run.
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I et in the white folks kitchen sometimes and sometimes wid the other children at maw's house.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration
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My maw's name was Sallie and Miss Sara allus looked with kindness on my maw.
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So I'z spen 'the evenin' at 'at lady's house, Fanny, what used to be cook fer Miz Johnson, nex' do 'you' maw's; an 'I ast Fanny what am I go'n' a do about it, an 'Fanny say, ` Call him Clematis,' she say.
Seventeen 1915
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Only my maw's name wasn't Kath -- Kath -- wasn't whut you jest now called it,
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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Only my maw's name wasn't Kath -- Kath -- wasn't whut you jest now called it,
From Place to Place 1910
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