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Examples
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A knife like that's a turruble thing to stab a man with.
Three Soldiers John Dos Passos 1933
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"He -- he ain't so _turruble_ brown," asserted Sundown.
Sundown Slim Henry Herbert Knibbs 1909
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"There ain't a turruble lot of difference," agreed Rope.
The Two-Gun Man Charles Alden Seltzer 1908
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"I'm turruble pleased to see yu '," he had said, immediately.
Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899
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"Hind sight is a turruble clear way o 'seein' things," said he.
Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899
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I am, and often, for I rile turruble quick, and God forgive me!
The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories Owen Wister 1899
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"I am goin 'somewhere to find boys that ain't so turruble quick stampeded by a roast turkey."
Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899
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The she-bear was off, and I crumb up inside the rock, and I waited a turruble long spell till the sun travelled clean around the canyon.
Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899
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Just knew I'd have to, yu 'see, and it was inconvenient, turruble inconvenient -- Billy here and my ranch, and the beef round-up comin' -- but how could I let her go and forget me?
Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899
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"Only noticing him so turruble anxious to quit me -- well, a man acts without thinking."
Lin McLean Owen Wister 1899
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