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  • Her son was nine I. was obviously sorting it out in his mind as best he c'd been a year on remand and a year away.

    two women Cole, Martina 1999

  • "You c'd git back to the right trail even yet if you'd only go straight," urged Kiddie.

    Kiddie the Scout Robert Leighton

  • Britisher yelled; an 'we who was lookin' on c'd certainly hear suthin 'drippin' from th 'bunk he'd just got out of.

    Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various

  • 'Any cook that is worth his salt can do wonders wi' th 'worst vittles'; an 'he told me how he'd once sailed with a cook as c'd make a stewed cat taste better'n a rabbit.

    Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various

  • We're going to live like a pair of primitive savages, talkin 'in the sign language, killin' an 'cookin' our own food, takin 'with us nothin' that you c'd buy in a city emporium, except, of course, our guns and huntin 'knives.

    Kiddie the Scout Robert Leighton

  • By the sound of its feet we c'd tell it was no or'nary prairie cayuse, an 'soon, sure enough, Broken Feather came inter view, with the goods in a gunny sack slung over his shoulder.

    Kiddie the Scout Robert Leighton

  • "I c'd tell sumpin erbout a party thet I 'magine you'd cock yer ear t' hear."

    The Henchman Mark Lee Luther

  • "Padlock was too high for him to reach," returned Gideon, "an 'Rube didn't notion t' have truck with keyholes, winter nights, when he c'd shove the cub's grub in by a trap he c'd slide open in the dark."

    Kiddie the Scout Robert Leighton

  • She told me t'nate, she c'd 'ave' ad a mint of money if she'd liked, but she wouldna tak 'it.

    The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

  • You felt in your pocket an 'fetched out them chips o' lead pencil, an 'you planted em one by one so all-fired cutely that nobody who wasn't searchin' fer signs c'd have discovered 'em.

    Kiddie the Scout Robert Leighton

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