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  • I am in favor uv payin 'off this-here drotted tariff an' stoppin 'of it; an' I'm in favor of collectin 'jist enuf of rivenue fur to run the Government ekernomical administered, accordin' to Andy Jackson an 'the Dimocrat flatform.

    Gov. Bob. Taylor's Tales Robert L. Taylor

  • They was all so taken aback that they never thought o 'stoppin' her.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 Various

  • "I'd like mighty well to do it, Miss Fielding," said William, wagging his head, "but these dratted mules have got their heads and -- they -- ain't --- no notion o 'stoppin' this side of the ranch corrals."

    Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies Alice B. Emerson

  • The men in our department is going to walk out to the last one, and if there was any way o 'stoppin' it by argument I'd tell you.

    The Gibson Upright Booth Tarkington 1907

  • If Jack Payson can marry your brother Dick's gal on Dick's money -- fer there's no hope o 'stoppin' that now -- you can cut Slim out with Polly, on Slim's salary.

    The Round-Up A romance of Arizona novelized from Edmund Day's melodrama Edmund Day 1894

  • Oh, dey ain't no time fu 'stoppin' an 'dey ain't no time fu' res ',

    The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889

  • Says I to Mr. Wilfrud (and he agreed with me), ye might say, nice sour grapes, as well as nice garls, if the creatures think o 'stoppin' where they are, and what they are.

    Sandra Belloni — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868

  • Says I to Mr. Wilfrud (and he agreed with me), ye might say, nice sour grapes, as well as nice garls, if the creatures think o 'stoppin' where they are, and what they are.

    Sandra Belloni — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • "I shouldn't wonder, now, if he had the impudence to come straight here and denounce _me_ as a thief, just by way o 'stoppin' me from goin 'by the train, and so having some sort o' revenge."

    Shifting Winds A Tough Yarn 1859

  • But th 'owd lad wur i' sich a fluster, that istid o 'stoppin' it, he swapped th 'barrel to another tune.

    Th' Barrel Organ Edwin Waugh 1853

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