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  • Don't they be realizin' their dealin' with a member o' me crew now?

    More lesbian pirates, my head & a quiz Elizabeth McClung 2006

  • They say smack makes you immune tae pain, but not if your stuff was cut with a big dose o 'brick dust an' glass and it's wearing off anyways, so Ah turns an 'runs, realizin' what Ah should have already known, an 'that is that a seventeen-year old homeless heroin addict is in no position tae make plans.'

    High Society Elton, Ben 2002

  • It is probly a good thing I was kep busy playin football, cause it was such a awful feelin, realizin Jenny was doin that with the banjo player, an that she probly hadn't even a thought bout me in that regard.

    Forrest Gump Groom, Winston, 1944- 1986

  • Dan handed the note to me but I let it drop on the floor an just stood there, realizin for the first time in my life what it is truly like to be a idiot.

    Forrest Gump Groom, Winston, 1944- 1986

  • At the same time, I appreciate fully your p'int of view, while realizin 'that I can't convince you o' mine.

    Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

  • You've heard of a man bein 'suddenly rich and not realizin' it, or havin 'somethin' given to him that he didn't know the value of, and findin 'out afterwards.

    Mitch Miller Edgar Lee Masters 1909

  • If Masten was a boy, now, not realizin ', there'd be excuses.

    The Range Boss Charles Alden Seltzer 1908

  • I knew that you'd been lonesome and troubled, maybe; and some of the friends you used to have had kind of dropped away -- busy with other affairs, which is natural enough -- and, you needin 'sympathy and companionship, I was sort of worried for fear all this had influenced you more'n it ought to, and you'd been led into sayin' yes without realizin 'what it meant.

    Cap'n Warren's Wards Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • Elkanah, realizin 'that Wall Street was his apple pie, opened his mouth to swaller it at one gulp.

    Cap'n Warren's Wards Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • But you must understand that, realizin 'it, I'm not exactly imposin' myself on you for pleasure or -- well, from choice.

    Cap'n Warren's Wards Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

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