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  • Peters seed pris'ner a-comin 'strite fer the camp across the sands from the river, sir.

    The Story of Sonny Sahib Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • I'd take the skin off yer if any of yer did such a fing, strite I would.

    Leonie of the Jungle Joan Conquest

  • 'E walked strite up to' im, an '"Ware is the burra [1] sahib?" says' e.

    The Story of Sonny Sahib Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • "S'welp me," he said, as he touched a satin cushion with his coarse, broken-nailed finger-tips, "h'if oi h'understand wye a woman the loikes uv _you_, wiv h'everyfink she wants, cawn't run _strite_!"

    Leonie of the Jungle Joan Conquest

  • I only come aout last Toosday, me lord, an 'tryin' ter run strite an 'git a good job o' work, like wot you said, sir.

    Anthony Lyveden Dornford Yates 1922

  • Right hit did, sir; strite hat me, sir; hand with long w'ite 'ands it clawed for me.

    Out of Time's Abyss Edgar Rice Burroughs 1912

  • That was when _she_ fust saw me; but I was wuss before that, I tell you strite!

    The Servant in the House Charles Rann Kennedy 1910

  • "Why not shell the darned things strite off and finish 'em?" said the little dark man.

    The War of the Worlds 1906

  • Bin hattecked baw the Benny Seeras (Beni Siras), we ev, an ed to rawd for it pretty strite, too, aw teoll yr.

    Captain Brassbound's Conversion George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • "Why not shell the darned things strite off and finish 'em?" said the little dark man.

    The War of the Worlds Herbert George 1898

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