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About dark one or two little "skifts" of sleet fell.
Diary of Samuel A. Agnew : September 27, 1863-June 30, 1864, 1957
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Some is less successful: the occasional odd verb, such as “… glassed the valley below them with the binoculars” or bizarre terms like “the snow lay in skifts all through the woods” and “the snow stood in razor kerfs atop the fencewires”.
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Page 126 o'clock I thought it had cleared but was mistaken, for it soon clouded again and skifts of snow have been falling all day.
Diary of Samuel A. Agnew : September 27, 1863-June 30, 1864, 1957
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Dese las 'skifts wuz full o' ladies en genlmen a-goin 'over for to see de place.
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'Long 'bout six in de mawnin 'skifts begin to go by, en 'bout eight er nine every skift dat went 'long wuz talkin' 'bout how yo 'pap come over to de town en say you's killed.
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Dese las 'skifts wuz full o' ladies en genlmen a-goin 'over for to see de place.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain 1872
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Dese las 'skifts wuz full o' ladies en genlmen a-goin 'over for to see de place.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapters 06 to 10 Mark Twain 1872
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Dese las’ skifts wuz full o’ ladies en genlmen a-goin’ over for to see de place.
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’Long ’bout six in de mawnin’ skifts begin to go by, en ’bout eight er nine every skift dat went
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a warp ony day as play a harp; but when th 'Almeety skifts me fro' th 'Brig Factory to heaven, mebbe I'll shap as weel at a bit o' music as ony on yo '.'
Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather
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