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These got panicky -- followed by an unknown doom an 'they c'udn't see it, for it come like a thief at midnight an' agin like a pesterlence it wasted 'em at noonday.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

Now, a horse, Bud, "he said, striking an attitude for a discussion on his favorite topic," a horse is like a man -- he must have some meanness or he c'udn't live, an 'some goodness or nobody else c'ud live.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

"I met him right comin 'out o' the Casino at Trouville, yes'day aft'noon; c'udn 'a' b'en more'n four o'clock -- hol 'on though, yes 'twas, 'twas nearer five, about twunty minutes t' five, say -- an 'this feller tells me --" He cackled with laughter as palpably disingenuous as the corroborative details he thought necessary to muster, then he became serious, as if marvelling at his own wondrous verdancy.

The Guest of Quesnay Booth Tarkington 1907

I w'udn't be surprised but what he's ridin 'so't of one-sided.

Rimrock Trail 1906

A man w'udn't go to the trouble of timberin 'up if he didn't think he had somethin' inside that was goin 'to turn up high cahd some day.

Rimrock Trail 1906

"W'udn't wonder but what we'd rub up ag'in 'him' fo 'we leave."

Rimrock Trail 1906

But there's a lot of decent material drifted in an 'it w'udn't be hard to beat him to that play an' organize a camp committee fo 'the regulation of law an' order till such time as the camp proves itself an 'is established.

Rimrock Trail 1906

"She w'udn't work fo 'you fo' the time it takes a rabbit to dodge a rattler," said Sam.

Rimrock Trail 1906

He'd put up his bluff an ', feelin' sure you c'udn't hurt him, he'd have carried it through.

Rimrock Trail 1906

If I'd known he c'udn't git clear I'd have stuck -- same as he would if I was caught.

Rimrock Trail 1906