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- noun Plural form of
spence .
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Examples
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I doan wanna speek too soon, buts if fings wurk owt – travel ‘spences won’t b a prollem!
YOUR - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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'Well, dey ax, round yere, one fifty, an' 'spences dar an' back; an 'it'm a pile, when you tink we hab used up' most all de new trees. '
The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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"And pays all de heavy 'spences of uniforms an' beer --"
Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life Lemuel Ely Quigg
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'Yas; but I reckon, bein's as ye set so high on Bony, ye kin go a trifle more'n thet; jest the' spences down yere? '
The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Newbern I hunt Cale up, an 'I tell him he must study fur de law, shore; an' dat ef he done it, I know'd master Robert would pay de 'spences, out ob lub to de country.'
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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"Lor, bless ye, stranger, the 'knows th' ab'lisheners ar thar friends, jest so well as ye du; and so fur as thet goes, d---- d ef the 'doan't know I'm one on 'em myseff, fur I tells 'em, ef the' want to put, the 'kin put, an' I'll throw thar trav'lin 'spences inter th' bargin.
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore
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