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Examples
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"It don't seem jestly right to me, but then he's got the resate, an 'your mother signed it -- an' there 'tis!"
Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life Alice Brown 1902
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I'm thinkin 'now, that if you met a party of peelers on pathrole, they might give you a resate for turnin' the same color red and white; however, _glunthoma_, (* Hear me) if you have any design upon the Cannie Soogah, I can only tell you that I never carry money about me, and even if I did, I have a couple
The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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"De yaller gal git de goose all stuffed an 'fixed propah, fo' she done use my mammy's resate fo 'stuffin'.
The Corner House Girls at School Grace Brooks Hill 1917
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"Well -- I'm pretty good at workin 'out a resate, too.
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Ma's _resate_ never fails, and it will be a new treat for the little dears. "
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag, Vol. 5 Jimmy's Cruise in the Pinafore, Etc. Louisa May Alcott 1860
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There now, Masther John's in the office, ready an 'willin' to give sich o 'yez a resate in full as will -- desarve it. "
The Tithe-Proctor The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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