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Examples
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And then, as usual, while the orchestra played a sort o 'vampin' accompaniment, I sprang a gag, the way I do on the stage.
Between You and Me Harry Lauder 1910
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I lykes the Take 5 guitar work but I like it mush better wif Brubeck vampin anna piano an listenin to the drummer dealing creativly wid teh unorfodox 5/4 time signachure.
Effishuncie cat - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Ain't you hear'n tell of flirty gals what goes about vampin 'nice young men jus' fer a good time?
Polly of Pebbly Pit Lillian Elizabeth Roy 1900
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I make all allowances for the gear, and the gettin 'up, and the vampin', and all that sort o 'flash; but toggery won't make an ugly gall handsum, nohow you can fix it.
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Volume 02 Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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I make all allowances for the gear, and the gettin 'up, and the vampin', and all that sort o 'flash; but toggery won't make an ugly gall handsum, nohow you can fix it.
The Attaché; or, Sam Slick in England — Complete Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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Cherry was with him, laughin 'and makin' eyes, and vampin 'away like she always does, an' him an 'her danced a lot after that -- "
The City of Fire Grace Livingston Hill 1906
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