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  • Wee is beein more slow now cuz sum kweschunubbulls has joined ands now we has too beez slower and carefuller and nice peepulls like u gets teh slow treetment. *sigh* Is unforchunutt.

    dis ur kid? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Everybody warned him that if they ever ran away they'd be spoiled for life, and he got carefuller and carefuller of them.

    The Squirrel-Cage Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918

  • Then I looks carefuller and seen it wasn't no feather-duster at all -- nothing but an Injun. '

    Pardners Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

  • I d'know but what father's _been_ hasty in not lookin 'into things carefuller first.

    The Lady of the Aroostook William Dean Howells 1878

  • But it appears to me that a little carefuller reasoning from a little closer inspection of the facts would not have brought him to these conclusions.

    Criticism and Fiction William Dean Howells 1878

  • A carefuller study of the phenomenon reveals the fact that the seraphic strains are produced by the steam escaping from the hot-water bottles at the feet of the invalid.

    My Literary Passions William Dean Howells 1878

  • A carefuller study of the phenomenon reveals the fact that the seraphic strains are produced by the steam escaping from the hot-water bottles at the feet of the invalid.

    Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878

  • But it appears to me that a little carefuller reasoning from a little closer inspection of the facts would not have brought him to these conclusions.

    Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878

  • I reckon that's a slap in the face from the Almighty hisself that ought to make men more carefuller when they try to make little of women. "

    Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

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