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"Well, that's what I call ongrateful, dog-gone my skin if it ain't," said the guard, who had been evidently struck with M'liss's generosity.
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers Bret Harte 1869
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Dimwood might hev HIS opinion o 'what was' ongrateful 'and' selfish 'ef
From Sand Hill to Pine Bret Harte 1869
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-- but when ye talk o 'me givin' up my kindred, and sling such hogwash ez 'ongrateful' and 'selfish' round this yer sittin'-room, mebbe it mout occur to ye that Harry
From Sand Hill to Pine Bret Harte 1869
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Time may come as you'll be tramping every day, wet or dry, to teach ongrateful, onruly b'ys according to their station. '
The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys M. B. Manwell
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I theenk I hate your whole ongrateful race -- I served your wife like one slave!
Little Miss By-The-Day Lucille Van Slyke
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"All?" says the king, "why you ongrateful little vagabone, was the like ever given to any man before?"
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And it _do_ seem ray-ther ongrateful like, don't it now?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, May 28, 1892 Various
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An '' twud be a disgrace f'r to lave befure we've pounded these frindless an 'ongrateful people into insinsibility.
Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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'Tis onplisint iv thim, annyhow, not to say ongrateful.
Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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An 'he was proud an' happy, an 'he says:' Raypublics ar-re not always ongrateful. '
Mr. Dooley's Philosophy Finley Peter Dunne 1901
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