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Is it being suggested that those who write/publish dystopian or pessimistic fiction are in ome way unethical or morally feeble?
MIND MELD: Why is Genre Fiction Bleak and What Can Be Done About It? 2009
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"I can't go back 'ome'they' aven't got the means to feed the childer still too little to look for work," she continued in a monotone.
Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998
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The missus and the kids stays from church 'cos their duds ain't fit, and I stays' ome 'cos I've got to work like a slave to pay you for seven dollars' worth of spoiled vegetables and mouldy groceries.
Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various
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"I'll wiger you me first package from 'ome' e goes to Slopsgotten."
Tom Slade on a Transport Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913
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To hear her calling for her mother or for 'someone from' ome 'is hard on the sick and well.
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By the time he got 'ome' e was beaming all over 'is face.
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By the time he got 'ome' e was beaming all over 'is face.
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Providence has, I believe, specially devolved on Gladstone, Gore, and Co. the function of keeping "'ome' appy" for me.
The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Huxley, Leonard 1900
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I dessay I'm old-fashioned, but I never reely feel an 'ome's an' ome without a
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 15, 1916 Various 1898
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"A nice thing when a woman's troubled with hastmer, and brought 'ome' er daughter to take 'er place, that she should' ave to start 'untin' afresh!"
Merely Mary Ann Israel Zangwill 1895
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