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I 's a 'spectable 'oman, I is, en don' mix wid dem kind er people.

The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays 1895

Cabs, with trunks and band-boxes between the drivers 'legs and outside the apron, rattle briskly up and down the streets on their way to the coach-offices or steam-packet wharfs; and the cab - drivers and hackney-coachmen who are on the stand polish up the ornamental part of their dingy vehicles -- the former wondering how people can prefer' them wild beast cariwans of homnibuses, to a riglar cab with a fast trotter, 'and the latter admiring how people can trust their necks into one of' them crazy cabs, when they can have a 'spectable' ackney cotche with a pair of 'orses as von't run away with no vun;' a consolation unquestionably founded on fact, seeing that a hackney-coach horse never was known to run at all,

Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841

Sure, it's not 'the second coming of sf movies' as we might have hoped it would be, but it sure is a kick ass sf spectable, and I can live with that.

Will You Go See Avatar? 2009

Cameron has made a giant sf spectable with all his usual trademarks: amazing set pieces, incredible design, great cinematography and fantastic, well edited, action scenes.

Will You Go See Avatar? 2009

Multiply these incidents by thousands and you have the sickening spectable of Nazi Germany.

Danny Miller: Kristallnacht: 70 Years Later 2008

I know a ‘spectable old gentleman as lives there, wot’ll give you lodgings for nothink, and never ask for the change — that is, if any genelman he knows interduces you.

Oliver Twist 2007

An exami - nation of the press, not only in the United States, but in other Allied states as well, shows a tendency to use the word democracy in ways that Wilson made re - spectable and possible.

DEMOCRACY STEPHEN R. GRAUBARD 1968

It is demonstrated in this spectable, this program tonight.

GRADUATION-MACARENCO PEDAGOGIC INSTITUTE 1964

"Do you tink it bery 'spectable now, for a man who, in his younger day, fight for liberty, to go for to take it away in his old age from anoder man?"

The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams

Every overseer he ever had wuz decent and 'spectable.

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