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Examples
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Whiskey Centre is just where _I_ happen to live; bein 'what a body may call a travellin' name.
Oak Openings James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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"They tell me he's been away to college an 'travellin' the past six years."
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Red Sea an 'a Dead Sea an' a devilish dirty lot o 'travellin' to do on th 'way t' y'r promised land; an 'A'm thinkin', man, y've wasted a lot
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I was gittin 'tired of it, after a lot o' travellin 'an' some lively kind of scrapes; so I made up my mind to finish up with a grizzly, an 'then git back to trainin', which was what I was cut out fer, after all.
Kings in Exile Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901
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Merrithew left me well off, and there's no denyin 'travellin's improvin' to the mind, though at my age it's some wearin 'to the body.
The Lovely Lady Mary Hunter Austin 1901
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Judson Centre is a terrible healthy place, or the sanitarium wouldn't have been built here, an 'travellin' on the cars would shake me up considerable.
At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern Myrtle Reed 1892
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"Yes, I've got business in Wreckumoft, so we'll have the pleasure o 'travellin' together."
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As to the honour and dignity o 'travellin' vere can that be vithout a coachman; and wot's the rail to sich coachmen and guards as is sometimes forced to go by it, but a outrage and a insult!
Old Curiosity Shop 1800
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To think of travellin 'trail together an' then bein 'treated this-a way.
JAN, THE UNREPENTANT 2010
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Two are in South Africa now, an 'another's on a whaling voyage, an' one's travellin 'with a circus - he does trapeze work.
Chapter 7 2010
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