tan't

"I tan't see the mousehole," put in Charlotte, "I only 'tend it."

Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker Marguerite Bryant

Thet lousy parson ye herd ter meetin 'a Sunday, makes slavery eout a divine institooshun, but my wife's a Bible 'oman, and she says' tan't so; an '

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'Wal, stranger,' tan't hosspetality to take money on yer friends, and

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"I tan't find it; naughty mousie taken my booful golden penny," sobbed

Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker Marguerite Bryant

'Now, 'bout this secession bis'ness -- though tan't no use ter talk on thet, 'cause this State never'll secede -- South-Car'lina has done it, and

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'No,' tan't, massa; takes more'n tu ter make de Union. '

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'If' tan't far, 'he added, presently,' I'll light you for a Joey. '

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'Dey say dey luk likes de bery ole debil, massa; but reckon' tan't so. '

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'Damn it, I know better,' exclaimed Jessup pettishly; 'I mean -- I swear I don't know what I mean, [Hiram's cold blue eye was fixed calmly on him,] cussed if I do; but I say' tan't honesty which has done the thing for me.

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I know you think that I am lone and lorn; but, deary love, 'tan't so no more!

David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917