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Examples
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I hope nobody will cast an imputation on Miss Mary for HER share in this adventer, for she was as honest a gal as ever lived, and I do believe is hignorant to this day of our little strattygim.
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Arter this adventer I left the palace as I had entered it, "leavin 'not a trace behind me."
Strange Visitors Henry J. Horn
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[William Greene's] adventer, and yet Mr. Weston write unto him, yt in regard of it, he hath drawne upon him a 100li. more.
The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete Azel Ames 1876
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"No, matey, I want to continue on my travels, and see this here cur'us land; only if we air to have another adventer I should like it to be a dry 'un, if it's all the same to the gents."
Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track George Manville Fenn 1870
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I hope nobody will cast an imputation on Miss Mary for HER share in this adventer, for she was as honest a gal as ever lived, and I do believe is hignorant to this day of our little strattygim.
The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Yet it seems strange y 'we should be put to him to receive both his & his partners adventer, and yet M'.
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Look, Keeper, I don't want to have to tell Duke Ferd that his favorite adventer, the very pride of Cotsberry, couldn't compete just because someone wouldn't put his name on a list. "
West Karana 2008
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