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Examples
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"Well," she replied, "I never did care any great for cider, and this tastes to me about as if I was drinkin 'cider an' snuffin 'horseredish at one and the same time."
The Christmas Story from David Harum Edward Noyes Westcott 1872
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Robbin 'people, fuckin' snuffin 'niggas and all that dumb shit.
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Because this is history's most highly publicized snuffin 'and cappin', a lot of people who don't know an oil well from a hole in the ground - who've probably never heard ole Red tell how he successfully snuffed out the Devil's Cigarette Lighter in '62 - want to get involved.
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"Obadiah declares its all along o 'his chewin' an 'smokin' an 'snuffin' day in an 'day out, fer nigh onto a hundred year; an' Ebenezer declares he has his health becase he never touched the filthy weed."
Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers Anonymous
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Eroun 'come snuffin' a lean houn 'dawg, one ob de re'l ol' 'nebber-git enuff' breed.
The Corner House Girls at School Grace Brooks Hill 1917
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Well, old Geordie began kinda snuffin 'like he always did when he got excited.
The Second Chance Nellie L. McClung 1912
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Well, old Geordie began kinda snuffin 'like he always did when he got excited.
The Second Chance 1910
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Old George Steadman is a sly old rooster, and the other day he comes up to me in Millford, snuffin like a settin 'goose, and I saw there was something on his mind.
The Second Chance Nellie L. McClung 1912
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But for a savin 'innocence you'd have made yourself low an' vile -- betrayin 'yourself, betrayin' me -- all to bind my hands an 'keep me from snuffin' out Mormon life.
Riders of the Purple Sage Zane Grey 1905
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I never make my mincemeat 'thout snuffin' at the spice-box to freshen up my mind.
Tiverton Tales Alice Brown 1902
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