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We may break our precious necks in the gym and be buried with military honors but we 'dassent' skin a shin anywhere else.
Jane Allen, Junior Edith Bancroft
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Some two or three looked quickly and expectantly up, as though they might like it very much, but Corporal Connelly said he "dassent," he
Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila Charles King 1888
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The brutes just snarled at each other from a distance -- tapping at each other long-distance, you know, saying dast and dassent, dast and dassent.
Flush of Gold 2010
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He ain't afraid of anything because he knows you dassent hit him for fear of croaking him.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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People didn't know about it and we dassent tell for we knowed he'd kill us if we did.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration
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The dog scratched on the door but I dassent open it to let him in.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration
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I dassent breathe hard for fear of burning my nose off.
The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs
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Sometime he get hes dandah up an 'den we dassent look roun' at him.
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No one ever spoke out in grandfather's day -- they dassent.
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I told them what the Yankee soldier told me to say and Grandma Gracie took my dress and lift it over my head and pins my hands inside, and Lawsie, how she whipped me and I dassent holler loud either.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration
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