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By the sound of its feet we c'd tell it was no or'nary prairie cayuse, an 'soon, sure enough, Broken Feather came inter view, with the goods in a gunny sack slung over his shoulder.
Kiddie the Scout Robert Leighton
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One says they've the habit of disguisin 'theirselves as Red Injuns, another holds as they goes foolin' around as or'nary cowboys, but wearin 'face masks; an' another as they travels in
Kiddie the Scout Robert Leighton
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Already gone risin 'a good half-ounce above my or'nary
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various
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I say, old three-decker in or'nary, we all wants one o 'your close-laid yarns this good night.
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, August 1850 of Literature, Science and Art. Various
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Noo, of course, it was juist an or'nary day in Dr. Cameron's parish across the burn -- the burn divides the twa, ye ken.
St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles
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Because they know that though it's still daylight, and everythin's or'nary and quiet ... to-day will be the same as all the other days, and come to an end, and it'll be night ....
Night Must Fall : a Play in Three Acts Emlyn Williams 1946
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"Ain't they just or'nary shapes?" asked Fuselli, half turning round.
Three Soldiers John Dos Passos 1933
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My Abner was sech a spendthrift that he'd throw away a day's market prices down at the or'nary, but he used to expect the money from a parcel of turkeys to keep me in clothes and medicines and doctor's bills, to say nothin 'of household linen an' groceries for the whole year round.
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This or'nary is goin 'to be kept decent as long as I keep it.
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I've told him so time and agin when he stopped at the or'nary.
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