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  • And for your chistianity, think real hard and look into YOUR past and see where if you did not believe in chist you where dead.

    Some Random Thoughts on the Election 2008

  • Aquariosa 8 larines by ordinarie chist, raisins 10 by chist, which is a quintall of roues 128.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • The chist is your'n, or your father's; and Hutter is your father, not mine.

    The Deerslayer James Fenimore Cooper 1820

  • The "chist" had only one drawer; into that we put all the gloves, ties, handkerchiefs, and suspenders, and on the shelves below we put his shoes and boots.

    Letters on an Elk Hunt Elinore Pruitt Stewart

  • Then I made a blue curtain for the "chist" and one for the window, and the room looked plumb nice, I can tell you.

    Letters on an Elk Hunt Elinore Pruitt Stewart

  • And then he reminded them how back in the country down South, before they came to the city, they would buy a pair of shoes at Christmas and after Christmas put them away in the "chist" and not take them out again until "big meeting day," and then wear them only in the meeting and not walking to and from the church.

    Booker T. Washington Builder of A Civilization Emmett Jay 1916

  • And then he reminded them how back in the country down South, before they came to the city, they would buy a pair of shoes at Christmas and after Christmas put them away in the "chist" and not take them out again until "big meeting day," and then wear them only in the meeting and not walking to and from the church.

    Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization Lyman Beecher Stowe 1915

  • Bugsey's sweater had a hole in the "chist," but you would never know it the way he held his hand.

    Sowing Seeds in Danny Nellie L. McClung 1912

  • Bugsey's sweater had a hole in the "chist," but you would never know it the way he held his hand.

    Sowing Seeds in Danny 1908

  • The only object inviting to sedentary posture in this room was Grandpa's huge "chist," which occupied a position

    Cape Cod Folks Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895

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