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  • She beat me about the head, tripped me, then damn near skewered me with that umbreller thing.

    Thief Of Hearts Medeiros, Teresa 1994

  • Lizzie has a new pink organdie, with roses on her hat; and we're thinking of getting her a pink umbreller if it don't cost too much.

    The Girl from Montana Grace Livingston Hill 1906

  • -- 'There's six weeks' hard for refoosing dooty, 'argued Knowles,' I mind I once seed in Cardiff the crew of an overloaded ship -- leastways she weren't overloaded, only a fatherly old gentleman with a white beard and an umbreller came along the quay and talked to the hands.

    The Nigger of the Narcissus 1897

  • 'Pears that old coon he was only on papy and allowance from some kind people, under orders to look for overloaded ships, and he couldn't see no further than the length of his umbreller.

    The Nigger of the Narcissus 1897

  • Do ye see that tall cottingwood tree a half mile down -- the one with the flat umbreller top, like a cypress?

    The Covered Wagon Emerson Hough 1890

  • Africy with a Test'ment in one hand 'n' a sun umbreller in the other, savin 'souls by the wholesale; but 't ain't no mean service to go through the world stealin' into folks 'hearts like a ray o' sunshine,

    Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • One feller tried to git my carpet bag and another tried to git my umbreller, and I jest told 'em to stand back or durned if I wouldn't take a wrestle out of one or two of them, then I asked one of

    Uncle Josh's Punkin Centre Stories Cal Stewart 1887

  • "Mr. Maxwell never lets me take the umbreller," said the boy innocently.

    Finger Posts on the Way of Life 1847

  • It jist clears up on purpose I do believe, to tempt you out without your umbreller, and jist as sure as you trust it and leave it to home, it clouds right up, and sarves you out for it -- it does indeed.

    The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

  • Tell you what: I'll put on my ile-skin, take an umbreller and go and talk to the stable helps, for I feel as lonely as a catamount, and as dull as a bachelor beaver.

    The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

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