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Examples
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"Can't you take some nashty medicine or sticky sweeties or cough drops to make you better?"
Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls Frances Browne Arthur
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Dear Lord, when I getsh to be a little boy anzel up in hebben, don't let growed-up anzels come along whenever I'm doin 'anyfing nice for 'em, an' say '_don't_,' or tumble me down in heaps of nashty old black coal.
Romance of California Life John Habberton 1881
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"Well, Izhe GOIN 'to be dead some day' an zen your nashty old goat sha'n't see me a bit -- see how he like ZAT."
Helen's Babies John Habberton 1881
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"No; I froed nashty old handkerchief out the window -- don't want dirty old handkerchiefs in my nice 'ittle room."
Helen's Babies John Habberton 1881
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"Begorra, he's ownly havin 'a cooler to aise that nashty timper av his own," said the boatswain from the door of his cabin, which was just next ours in the deck-house, only more forward.
Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea William Heysham Overend 1874
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It's us that's busted when we've eated great plates of it -- nashty, messy stuff! "and Joan turned up her dainty little nose in disgust at what she was so tired of hearing called" plain, wholesome food. "
Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls Frances Browne Arthur
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"'Taint nashty' tuff -- it's byead an '' lasses, an 'its nice, an'
Helen's Babies John Habberton 1881
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Make his mouf so big he can fwallow Mike, an 'zen mate it' ittle aden, so Mike tan 'det OUT; nashty old Mike! "
Helen's Babies John Habberton 1881
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