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Dad's poorlier after doctor drops off drink with analgesic 10
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"Your mother's done a sight more for me'n I ever kin do for her, an 'I want to keep a doin' long as God will let her live, which I'm afeard it won't be mighty long, for she's poorlier to-day 'n l've seen her yet."
Sea-Gift. A Novel. Edwin Wiley 1873
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"I might think poorlier of you than I've a right to if
Aunt Rachel David Christie Murray
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I does feel poorlier to-day den I bin feel yit; and de misry in my bres 'is more den I can' scribe. "
Uncle Robin, in his cabin in Virginia, and Tom without one in Boston 1853
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