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They shall find him ware an 'wakin', as they found him long ago!
Poems of To-Day: an Anthology Various
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When 't come t 'wakin' of 'em up th 'next mornin' they was like a pair o 'bears that' d holed up for th 'winter,' n 'it nigh took violence t' get 'em out at all.
The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier Edgar Beecher Bronson
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They shall find him ware an 'wakin', as they found him long ago!
From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor
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I hardly slept at all; kep 'wakin' up all the time.
Working With the Working Woman Cornelia Stratton Parker
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They shall find him, ware an 'wakin', as they found him long ago.
Modern British Poetry Louis Untermeyer 1931
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They shall find him, ware an 'wakin', as they found him long ago.
Drake's Drum 1920
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"Not much, bo, I ain't the kind o 'fool as makes a habit o' wakin 'your kind out o' their beauty sleep sudden, no more I ain't a guy as takes liberties in strange bedrooms, see?"
The Definite Object A Romance of New York Jeffery Farnol 1915
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They shall find him ware an 'wakin', as they found him long ago!
Collected Poems 1897 - 1907, by Henry Newbolt Henry John Newbolt 1900
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They shall find him ware an 'wakin', as they found him long ago!
Poems: New and Old Henry John Newbolt 1900
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I says, 'No, Elijah, you've waked me up an' wakin 'me up is nothin' to joke over.
Susan Clegg and a Man in the House Anne Warner 1891
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