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  • CLIPS automated email delivery: A how-to in pictur ...

    Super Librarian, the comic, available today Dan 2007

  • You brought 'em toys an 'dolls an' pictur 'books, whips, boxes of paints, needlecases with scissors an' thimble all complete.

    Kiddie the Scout Robert Leighton

  • It's jest a sort o 'pictur' a painter feller's li'ble to spend most of his wholesome nights dreamin 'about.

    The Forfeit Ridgwell Cullum 1905

  • "She's a perfec 'pictur' o 'joy, if ever I laid my eyes on one!"

    An Alabaster Box Florence Morse Kingsley 1898

  • "Now ef you don't feel rickless enough, major, and kind o 'wanter see how it 's done, you ask Miss Pray t' sail along with us up to Millport, whar I've got to go to have my condum 'pictur' took."

    Vesty of the Basins Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895

  • "Yo 'say as th' Book makes it seem real as th 'pictur'," she said.

    That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story 1877

  • An it's hardly to be wondered at, for his snug cot lukt th 'pictur' o 'comfort.

    Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

  • He was all for trompin '' round by himself, drawin 'pictur's on whatever come handy, or lyin' under the trees a-dreamin 'the summer days through.

    The Brass Bound Box Evelyn Raymond 1876

  • The old widow down the lane is waiting for "the lady" to write a letter for her to her son in Australia, and to see the "pictur," the cheap photograph of the grandchildren she has never seen or will see, that John has sent home.

    Stray Studies from England and Italy John Richard Greene 1860

  • But while the pictur were a-showin 'I heard my dear mammy's whisper: "Little Sinfi, little Sinfi, beware o'

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

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