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  • I, Fenris Badwulf, dictated this whilst being hand fed mango by my love slave Hollis. ikthis, the scribe, wrote this whilse watching same cross posted at DustMyBroom, close to where the rainforests of Calgary once stood before Global Warming. posted by The Mayor at 6: 14 PM

    Archive 2007-05-01 2007

  • Paraoxon, an organiphosphate pesticide that Immelman supplied to two security policeman who allegedly used it to poison the clothes of SA Council of Churches member Rev Rank Chikane whilse he was in

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Dey wuz an ol 'man, he were powerful in prayer, an gather de darkies unda a big tree, an we all kneels down whilse he pray fo de po' beastes what needs good clean water fo to drink.

    Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Ohio Narratives Work Projects Administration

  • Mine you, _I_ aint asten this yer question; but they is them thet does, an 'whilse they does hit do seem only right an' proper fer hit ter be looked inter by the proper 'thorities.

    The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 Various 1888

  • He didn't make no move at all 'at he didn't give keerful thought to; whilse the feller --! well, as I wuz sayin', it jest

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887

  • [Writ durin 'State Fair at Indanoplis, whilse visitin' a Soninlaw then residin 'thare, who has sence got back to the country whare he says a man that's raised thare ot to a-stayed in the first place.]

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) Various 1887

  • -- And whilse he wuz a-loafin 'round, sorto' lonesome -- like a feller allus _is_ in a strange place, you know -- he kindo 'drapped in on our crowd at the Shoe-Shop, ostenchably to git a boot-strop stitched on, but _I_ knowed, the minute he set foot in the door,' at _that_ feller wanted _comp'ny_ wuss'n _cobblin'_.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887

  • Wes wuzn't what you'd call a _lively_ player at all, ner a competiter 'at talked much' crost the board er made much furse over a game whilse he _wuz_ a-playin '.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887

  • But Wes wuz jest as cool and ca'm as ever, and still a-whistlin 'consolin' to hisse'f-like, whilse the feller jest 'peared wore out and ready to drap right in his tracks any minute.

    The Wit and Humor of America, Volume I. (of X.) Various 1887

  • "Ef you please -- to not to move up to'a'ds de stage whilse de play a-goin 'on."

    Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884

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