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Examples
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Also, Eric now seems particularly interested in this one line from the AP stoory: "Obama hasn't always claimed there were no papers left from his time in the state Senate."
Obama: I Don't Have Records From My Time In State Senate 2009
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Gremlin, yer stoory it tutshes mah hart. i must reemembr it fur doz tymes wen i can not see de endinz.
I change desktop. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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A've no soort o 'use for the new kind o' stoory -- the love-stoories aboot mooney.
Tam o' the Scoots Edgar Wallace 1903
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"What a domn'd loong time ye are teelling that stoopid stoory Veelliers," at length noticed Cranstoun, wheeling round and regarding the narrator with a look of ill assumed indifference, "a coold a toold it mysel in half the time."
The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Volume 1 John Richardson 1824
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"What a domn'd loong time ye are teelling that stoopid stoory Veelliers," at length noticed Cranstoun, wheeling round and regarding the narrator with a look of ill assumed indifference, "a coold a toold it mysel in half the time."
The Canadian Brothers, or the Prophecy Fulfilled a Tale of the Late American War — Complete John Richardson 1824
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Bunny Avie: DP*yumyum* stoory of a bunny - grey (winter CSR gift)
Fashion World of SL 2009
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I wonder at Gold settlin 'up to git over men like me with a stoory so onlikely. "
Aunt Rachel David Christie Murray
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"A'm no 'so fond o' th 'new style," he said; "the detective stoory is verra guid in its way for hame consumption, but A 'prefair the mair preemative discreeptions, of how that grand mon, Deadwood Dick, foiled the machinations of Black Peter, the Scoorge of Hell Cañon.
Tam o' the Scoots Edgar Wallace 1903
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"Eea, it does," says th 'landlord, "aw shouldn't be daan abaght makin a peanner after this; but if aw did mak one, aw'd mak one' at wodn't braik wi 'fallin an odd stoory.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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Dusty (Scots)
August 2, 2009