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Sidenote: And seriously, how annoying is it that, after all the "oh noes I don't want to turrn you into a vamp" bella is turned and is completely fine?
David Slade Responds to His Own Remarks About Twilight | /Film 2009
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"Captain Murphy ordhered me to let ye out," he explained to the supercargo, "an 'towld me to turrn me back on ye."
Cappy Ricks Retires 1918
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The Chinee cooks don't count, for sure the poor heathens would only get excited and turrn somebody loose if we asked them to do anything desperate.
Cappy Ricks Retires 1918
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I says if he makes a bull he'll turrn the whole wurrld upside down to straighten things out.
Tom Slade at Black Lake Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913
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Terence, as he stood leaning against a picket fence that bordered the street, "savin 'the presence of the naygurs and thim red divils wid blankets an' scowls as wud turrn the milk sour in the pail."
The Crossing Winston Churchill 1909
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Terence, as he stood leaning against a picket fence that bordered the street, "savin 'the presence of the naygurs and thim red divils wid blankets an' scowls as wud turrn the milk sour in the pail."
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909
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Oi had Red Ben ready to -- ready to turrn on th 'villains -- pwhat carried her off.
Frank Merriwell's Pursuit How to Win Burt L. Standish 1905
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"Sure, Davy dear, it puts me in mind of the Saints 'day at home," said Terence, as he stood leaning against a picket fence that bordered the street, "savin 'the presence of the naygurs and thim red divils wid blankets an' scowls as wud turrn the milk sour in the pail."
The Crossing 1904
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"An 'it's meself will take thot bet in dollars," said Mickey, "an ', moore than thot, Oi'll put up a hull month's stuff thot there ain't a dog in the mate thot kin turrn the Warrhorrse oncet on the hull coorse."
Animal Heroes Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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But ye may turrn back an 'search the forest, -- we have no sthrangers in our party. "
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