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  • But Submit took care of the hull caboodle of 'em; worked out some by days 'works, to get more necessaries for 'em than the poor little farm would bring in; nursed the sick on their sick-beds and on their death-beds, till she see 'em into Heaven -- or that is where we spoze they went to, bein' deservin 'old males both on 'em, her father and her grandfather, and in full connectin with the Methodist Episcopel meetin' house.

    Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete Marietta Holley 1881

  • But Submit took care of the hull caboodle of 'em; worked out some by days 'works, to get more necessaries for 'em than the poor little farm would bring in; nursed the sick on their sick-beds and on their death-beds, till she see 'em into Heaven -- or that is where we spoze they went to, bein' deservin 'old males both on 'em, her father and her grandfather, and in full connectin with the Methodist Episcopel meetin' house.

    Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 3 Marietta Holley 1881

  • Ye got one lookin 'for healin', and needin 'yer healin', and ye got the healin ', but are ye to tend only those ye're thinkin' deservin '? "

    Mortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1999

  • Ye got one lookin 'for healin', and needin 'yer healin', and ye got the healin ', but are ye to tend only those ye're thinkin' deservin '? "

    Mortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1999

  • For one thing, he isn't engaged in an Oedipal struggle to prove he has bigger cojones than his old man and thus is more deservin 'of Ma Bush's good lovin'.

    Election Central Sunday Roundup 2009

  • U has given a deservin kitteh a little more luv and a possible chance at a forever home!

    Video: Kitteh Team-Up - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009

  • "Say, I ain't ever committed any crime deservin 'that anything like this should happen!" he exclaimed plaintively.

    Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923

  • "I ain't deservin 'o' this nohow," and he commenced to snivel a little.

    Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

  • When I told him how much I owed him, he grunted something about "ae guid turn deservin 'anither."

    The Thirty-Nine Steps 1915

  • When I told him how much I owed him, he grunted something about 'ae guid turn deservin' anither. '

    The Dry-fly Fisherman 1915

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