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  • You have zinged me, Fred, with cruel accuracy... and I sha'nt forget this slight, sir...

    Nosferatoons Arbogast 2008

  • Titus said: 'He sha'nt bother with any such damned person as you are.

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

  • Well, I sha'nt get a copying-press anyhow, I'll practice self-denial, and get a five-cent. diary instead.

    Canada for Gentlemen James Seaton Cockburn

  • An 'when de las' one was gone but my little Henry, I grab 'him clost up to my breas' so, an 'I ris up an' says, 'You sha'nt take him away,' I says; 'I'll kill de man dat tetch him!'

    Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

  • "But I sha'nt," she replied, with laconic indifference.

    The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884

  • An 'when de las' one was gone but my little Henry, I grab 'him clost up to my breas' so, an 'I ris up an' says, 'You sha'nt take him away,' I says; 'I'll kill de man dat tetch him!'

    Sketches New and Old, Part 4. Mark Twain 1872

  • An 'when de las' one was gone but my little Henry, I grab 'him clost up to my breas' so, an 'I ris up an' says, 'You sha'nt take him away,' I says; 'I'll kill de man dat tetch him!'

    Sketches New and Old Mark Twain 1872

  • I don't say that you won't regret it; I don't say that I sha'nt be disappointed, too, for I have been managing this thing purely as a matter of business, with a view to profiting by it.

    Maruja Bret Harte 1869

  • "I sha'nt have to invent much," said Wilfrid to himself, bitterly.

    Sandra Belloni — Volume 7 George Meredith 1868

  • "I sha'nt have to invent much," said Wilfrid to himself, bitterly.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

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