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  • Whenever I sor him in the Park, he was always riding an ansum hanimal.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • So no more at presence but will come foward hany day to pruv hall this agin my guvnor becase he arnt doing the thing as is rite and I looks to you Mr. Pindargrasp to see as I gits someat ansum sein as ow I coms forward agin the Appy ouse gent and for the hother party oos side you is a bakkin.

    Castle Richmond 2004

  • So no more at presence but will come foward hany day to pruv hall this agin my guvnor becase he arnt doing the thing as is rite and I looks to you Mr. Pindargrasp to see as I gits someat ansum sein as ow I coms forward agin the Appy ouse gent and for the hother party oos side you is a bakkin.

    Castle Richmond Anthony Trollope 1848

  • Miss Leonora Kicksey, a ansum, lively Islington gal, taken out to

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Whenever I sor him in the Park, he was always riding an ansum hanimal.

    The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • It was bought in by Maryhann, though: 'O dear Jeames,' says she, often (kissing of it & pressing it to her art), 'it isn't ansum enough for you, and hasn't got your angellick smile and the igspreshn of your dear dear i's.'

    Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • It was bought in by Maryhann, though: ‘O dear Jeames,’ says she, often (kissing of it & pressing it to her art), ‘it isn’t ansum enough for you, and hasn’t got your angellick smile and the igspreshn of your dear dear i’s.’

    Burlesques 2006

  • It was bought in by Maryhann, though: ‘O dear Jeames,’ says she, often (kissing of it & pressing it to her art), ‘it isn’t ansum enough for you, and hasn’t got your angellick smile and the igspreshn of your dear dear i’s.’

    The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006

  • 'ansum, if you didn't look quite so much like a young ellyfunt.

    The Little Skipper A Son of a Sailor George Manville Fenn 1870

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