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An ', across the road, there's the garden, full o' flowers, an 'smellin' -- an 'a blessed sense as he can pick an' choose an 'take his time with it all. "
Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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The deacon's wife had him on the lounge a-bathin 'his head with cold water and a-holdin' smellin 'salts to his nose.
Frank Merriwell's Son A Chip Off the Old Block Burt L. Standish 1905
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An 'three or four herrin'-gutted jackaroos comes along about dinner-time, when the table's set and the cookin' smellin 'from the kichen, with their belts done up three holes, an' not the price of a feed on 'em.
Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894
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Oh, an 'if you think this is the last of the money that we gonna see go down the tubes, you'd best be wakin' up an 'smellin' the coffee.
unknown title 2009
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'tis all a muddle an 'a racket since the motor-cars went bouncin' about an 'smellin' like p'ison -- 'tain't wot it used to be.
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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'tis all a muddle an 'a racket since the motor-cars went bouncin' about an 'smellin' like p'ison -- 'tain't wot it used to be.
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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'tis all a muddle an 'a racket since the motor-cars went bouncin' about an 'smellin' like p'ison -- 'tain't wot it used to be.
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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By gum, it kinder makes a chap lick his lips when he rickolecks it, a-slidin 'along there in the sun, not too hot an' not too cold, a-smokin 'very comfortable, with one's back braced agin a saft spruce log, an' smellin 'the leetle catspaws what comes blowin' off the shores jest ez sweet an 'saft ez a gal's currls a-brushin' of a feller's face. "
Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901
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We'll never be goin 'around smellin' out an 'swipin' bits of soil an 'carryin' it up a hill in a basket.
CHAPTER V 2010
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So I get my scents and food plots smellin real nice.
Trail Cams Lie (and Three More Lessons from a Great Deer) 2009
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