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San Pasqual that you two'd never met up, an 'they tell me that durin' the hold-up McGraw was behind a wall an 'wearin' a mask.
The Long Chance 1918
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Sometimes I feel as if my head was kind of wearin 'out.
Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Ain't yeh "-- he turned directly to Maria --" bin nursin 'yer poor mother fer six years past an' wearin 'yerself out, an' ain't yeh bin sewin 'day an' night fer three months, ever sence she died, t 'git ready t' marry
Many Kingdoms Elizabeth Garver Jordan 1907
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An 'when she got through, an' looked up at us from down in the green, an 'wearin' Jennie's shroud an 'all, I just put out my hands, to help her up, an' I thought, almost like prayin ':' Oh, raise up, you
Friendship Village Zona Gale 1906
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Fust you ask him ef his name is Kenneth Gwynne, an 'ef he sez it is, then you look an' see ef he is a tall feller an 'very good-lookin', without a beard, an 'wearin' a blue cape, an 'when you see that he answers that description, why, you tell him to come an' see me as soon as he gits to town.
Viola Gwyn George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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Me -- a Daughter of Temperance an 'wearin' the blue ribbon!
The Panchronicon Harold Steele MacKaye 1897
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An 'wearin' out yer boots an 'heart in the wastin' of yer life.
In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses Henry Lawson 1894
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To think of a man like that turnin 'to the sup'stitions o' maids an 'wearin' a oley bit o 'silver!
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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To think of a man like that turnin 'to the sup'stitions o' maids an 'wearin' a oley bit o 'silver!
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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To think of a man like that turnin 'to the sup'stitions o' maids an 'wearin' a oley bit o 'silver!
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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