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  • "Marse Comyn, I ain't got no use fo 'dat Misteh Hoppa', Ise kinder sup'stitious 'bout him, Marsa."

    Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

  • "Marse Comyn, I ain't got no use fo 'dat Misteh Hoppa', Ise kinder sup'stitious 'bout him, Marsa."

    The Crisis — Volume 04 Winston Churchill 1909

  • "Marse Comyn, I ain't got no use fo 'dat Misteh Hoppa', Ise kinder sup'stitious 'bout him, Marsa."

    The Crisis — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

  • I wasn't superstitious but to borrow my favorite line from The Office, I was becoming at least a little stitious.

    Oh Unlucky Day! 2010

  • I wasn't superstitious but to borrow my favorite line from The Office, I was becoming at least a little stitious.

    Tamar Abrams: Oh Unlucky Day! 2009

  • I never thought myself super-stitious; but the happiness before me is so nmch beyond my merit, that I can hardly flatter myself, at times, that it will take place.

    Sir Charles Grandison 2006

  • Thus super - stitious fear was, characteristically, the product of an overestimation of the capacity of the universe to inflict pain.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HAROLD J. JOHNSON 1968

  • Christology and take Jesus as our infallible guide to the divine, we are going to have to accept such super - stitious beliefs.

    AGNOSTICISM KAI NIELSEN 1968

  • Those who, at last, were tempted made what I thought then merely a super-stitious proviso that they were to be allowed to go away on the three nights of the full moon.

    The Moon Pool 1919

  • It is also certain on an average of hands, that nothing can be more super-stitious and absurd than the prevailing notions about luck or ill-luck.

    The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2 1870

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