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He said it was the medicine man who got horstile; but nothing'll stir up a medicine man quicker'n women, and the facts pointed that way.
CHAPTER 28 2010
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He's quicker'n I thought, an 'he's got a wallop that made me mighty respectful from the second round -- an' the prettiest little chop an 'come-again I ever saw.
CHAPTER XIV 2010
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They ain't expectin 'it this time, so them wimpy federal parks folks'll run up the white flag quicker'n you can say Nathan Bedford Nottingham Forrest.
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He'll break your skinny little short-pantsed legs quicker'n you can turn the other cheek.
Yes, I've seen it. You can stop alerting me. Ann Althouse 2008
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They'll break contracts of love quicker'n you can say "philadelphia lawyer."
"You've done an inside job on my heart." Ann Althouse 2008
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I could get us through quicker'n you can, yourself.
Ride Proud, Rebel! Andre Norton 1958
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"Pard, I'll kill a man quicker'n you will for the whisky."
The Authentic Life of Billy The Kid Garrett, Pat F 1954
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I fought like mad, but the handcuffs were on, an 'I was marched off quicker'n I can tell it.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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'Flies, Dan'l, flies!' and quicker'n you could wink he'd spring straight up and snake a fly off'n the counter there, and flop down on the floor ag'in as solid as a gob of mud, and fall to scratching the side of his head with his hind foot as indifferent as if he hadn't no idea he'd been doin 'any more'n any frog might do.
Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels
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'Dat ar dog'll twist a pig off'n his legs onto his back quicker'n winkin' -- 'deed will he.'
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