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"Faith and would ye mind tillin 'me how that same might be done?" asked Tolly Tip, showing considerable interest.
The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound A Tour on Skates and Iceboats George A. Warren
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"Ye won't be froightened, sure," he began, in a very solemn tone, the more to impress the anxious listener, "if Oi'm afther tillin 'ye the whole thruth, now?"
Young Tom Bowling The Boys of the British Navy John B. [Illustrator] Greene
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"Begorrah, the joke's too much ag'inst meself, sor, for me to be afther tillin 'the story too often!"
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin
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I came home like other soldiers an 'went to tillin' my farm.
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore
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'Tis splendid weather for walkin 'or tillin' the land.
Duty, and other Irish Comedies Seumas O'Brien
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"I suspect that this Hank ye're tillin 'me about must be a wild harum-scarum broth av a boy thin?" remarked the old woodsman, puffing at his pipe contentedly.
The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound A Tour on Skates and Iceboats George A. Warren
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Yet here we work, hitched together, a-toilin 'and tillin' sod.
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It don't get tilled, or else the women only 'tend to it at tillin' time.
The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920
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It don't get tilled, or else the women only 'tend to it at tillin' time.
The Ivory Trail Talbot Mundy 1909
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An 'here she's tillin' me now that she's niver heard nothin ''bout it from the Judge an' she's been payin 'the interest right along, an' would a been turned out by him if it han't
The Calling of Dan Matthews Harold Bell Wright 1908
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