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  • "Hain't fergot the hooch we-uns made on the Tanana, hev yeh?"

    TO THE MAN ON THE TRAIL 2010

  • "Hain't fergot the hooch we-uns made on the Tanana, hev yeh?"

    To The Man on the Trail 2010

  • Here's a representative specimen: "Hain't I yer lawful wife?"

    Eugene O'Neill, Master of Mirth 2009

  • Hain't no room between them machines, an 'no way of keepin' clear of 'em if ye put a foot wrong.

    The Serpent's Shadow Lackey, Mercedes 2001

  • "Hain't he comical?" she appealed to her sewing woman.

    Little Miss By-The-Day Lucille Van Slyke

  • Hain't it a pity to have a sweetheart what hain't brave

    Heart of the Blue Ridge Waldron Baily

  • Then finally Uncle Joshuay he thundered at her the third time, 'Hain't it the truth, Sister Dalmanuthy, that the judgment and the curse of God has fell on you for your rebelliousness, like I prophesied, and that you hain't able to see

    Sight to the Blind Lucy Furman

  • "Hain't it jest posserble," said Jordan, "thet what war really the fact war thet the Gipshins war drowned jest ter git 'em outer ther misery in this cussed place, and ther Jews war saved jest ter punish 'em?"

    The Wedge of Gold C. C. Goodwin

  • "Hain't a got none," stuttered the man again, "dasht if I has."

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various

  • "Hain't no better wine nowhere, than's got in this house," ejaculates the old hostess, calling our attention to a massive side-board, covered with cut-glass of various kinds.

    An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

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