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worrit .
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"It will worret you to death, Lucy; that I can see," said Mr. Vincy, more mildly.
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"It will worret you to death, Lucy; THAT I can see," said Mr. Vincy, more mildly.
Middlemarch 1871
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'Hold thee still in the Lord and abide patiently upon him,' was the text, and the peace, trust and rest which breathed in every sentence, ought to do something to assuage any and every _worret_, temporal and spiritual.
Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 Sarah Tytler 1870
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Miss Meadows would worret the life out of a lead pincushion. '
The Young Step-Mother Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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"It will worret you to death, Lucy; _that_ I can see," said Mr. Vincy, more mildly.
Middlemarch George Eliot 1849
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Major Dobbin), and his sister Miss B. Lord bless us, how she did use to worret us at Sunday-school; and the other lady, the little one with a cast in her eye and the handsome watch, is Mrs. Binny — Miss Grits that was; her pa was a grocer, and kept the
Vanity Fair 2006
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Dobbin), and his sister Miss B. Lord bless us, how she did use to worret us at Sunday-school; and the other lady, the little one with a cast in her eye and the handsome watch, is Mrs. B.nny -- Miss Grits that was; her pa was a grocer, and kept the Little Original Gold Tea Pot in
Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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