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Rice wine drunk along w/sushi- t'ain't 'Saki', it's 'sake'... just sayin'...
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The big star fallin ', mama t'ain't long (be) fo' (re) day
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As the old song goes, it "t'ain't what you do, it's the way that you do it."
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The big star fallin ', mama t'ain't long (be) fo' (re) day
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The men I respected most in the world laughed and grinned and chuckled and spat and said, "Shucks, 't'ain't nothin'."
Up The Line Silverberg, Robert 1969
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Only DANNEL the Dosser's a dab orf of whom t'ain't so easy to score.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 15, 1891 Various
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Champ dove mighty deep -- he was diving for money, which he figured was his pearl, Aileen -- an 'he most went under for good an' all without gettin 'what he wanted, an' now he's come to the surface agin, it's all ben wuth it -- he's got the pearl, Aileen, but t'ain't the one he expected to get -- he told me so t 'other night.
Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller
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Folks don't look atter dey chillun lak dey ought to, and t'ain't right.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration
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Ev'rybody wuz so good an 'kind ter one' nother; 't'ain't like that now -- no mam, not lak it use ter be.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3 Work Projects Administration
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I didn't mean to say nothing to the police about it, just yet, but after this here advertisement, t'ain't no use keeping the thing to ourselves.
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