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"I santered roun ''bout er half nour, an' den I begin fer ter feel sorter squeemish -- sorter like I done bin an 'swoller'd 'bout fo' poun's off'n de ruff een 'uv er scantlin'.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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The army of the Romans is swoller to 400,000 men of which 70,000 perished.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 Edward Gibbon 1765
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The army of the Romans is swoller to 400,000 men of which 70,000 perished. —
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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"They are some women in the world, if a man was to seal up his trouble in a termater-can and swoller it, would get a button-hook and
Rose of Old Harpeth Maria Thompson Daviess 1898
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