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  • I 'uz a fool when I talk 'bout th'owin' money roun 'that a-way.

    Short Stories of Various Types Various

  • Why, bless you, I was once goin 'to marry a plumber's mate, and jest a week afore the weddin' e went orf with some one else an 'owin' me arf-a-crown, too.

    Our Elizabeth A Humour Novel

  • Mr.. Dawkins, as I told you, give us the best of everything in the 'ouse and our lives wasn't worth livin' owin 'to Mr. Dawkins and the little Dawkinses and a young man lodger takin' against us in consekence.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 21, 1917 Various

  • I 'uz a fool when I talk 'bout th'owin' money roun 'that a-way.

    Penrod and Sam Booth Tarkington 1907

  • At a very early age his shrill voice could be heard calling in admonitory tones, caught from his mother's very lips, "You 'Nelius, don' you let me ketch you th'owin 'at ol' mis 'guinea-hens no mo'; you hyeah me?" or "Hi'am, you come offen de top er dat shed 'fo' you fall an 'brek yo' naik all to pieces."

    The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889

  • "But you want to meet my daughter befo 'you commence th'owin' bokays.

    The House Behind the Cedars 1900

  • "But you want to meet my daughter befo 'you commence th'owin' bokays.

    The House Behind the Cedars 1895

  • If it's a win, it's thirty quid — an 'I can pay all that's owin', with a lump o 'money left over.

    A PIECE OF STEAK 2010

  • "I hate owin 'things worse' n poison," Billy said to Saxon.

    CHAPTER XIX 2010

  • If it's a win, it's thirty quid — an 'I can pay all that's owin', with a lump o 'money left over.

    A PIECE OF STEAK 2010

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