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I've got some things to learn and I will not miss a turn bored to tears by sev'ral years of what they think will earn.

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One time he went into a hardware store t 'git a tin cup and after he'd looked careful at sev'ral he says,' How much is this one? '

The Fotygraft Album Shown to the New Neighbor by Rebecca Sparks Peters Aged Eleven Frank Wing

Yes Ma'am, dere was sev'ral little houses dat helt 'bout two or three folks what dey called jails.

Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration

Dey gathered Marster's big corn crap and 'ranged it in long, high piles, and sometimes it tuk sev'ral days for dem cornshuckers to git it all shucked, but evvybody stayed right dar on de job' til it was finished.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

July, and when sev'ral white famblies went in together, dey did have high old times tryin 'to see which one of 'em could git deir barbecue done and ready to eat fust.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

All ply their sev'ral tasks, and equal toil sustain.

The Aeneid English 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

Da air on our track, sure as shootin ', an' by de sound I know der is sev'ral on

The Kentucky Ranger Edward T. Curnick

"I was thinkin 'for sev'ral days he was lookin' right peaked."

The Mission of Janice Day Helen Beecher Long

I seen sev'ral, sir, but I never 'it one nor wired one.

Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France Vernon Bartlett 1938

He'd been in camp for sev'ral weeks and he was looking fine.

Oh, How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning 1918