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Examples
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"It's got to be up hellum, an 'shove her into the nearest bloomin' port."
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"You take the hellum while I run back and fetch 'em."
Thankful's Inheritance Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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"Port your hellum, you lubber!" shouted the driver, pulling with all his might on one rein.
Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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So it's lay aloft, topman, as the hellum goes down,
Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 Holman Day 1900
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"Down hellum!" and larded the conversation with horrible oaths, the wayfarers professed to see great humor in the performance.
The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul Holman Day 1900
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Tom took the hellum, I stood by to let go the anchor, and Jim he straddled the bow to dig through the fog with his eyes and watch out for danger ahead.
Tom Sawyer Abroad 1894
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Then Tom took the hellum, and started for that yahoo, and we come a-whizzing down and made a swoop, and knocked him out of the saddle, child and all; and he was jarred considerable, but the child wasn't hurt, but laid there working its hands and legs in the air like a tumble-bug that's on its back and can't turn over.
Tom Sawyer Abroad 1894
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I've watched 'em close, and it's my private opinion that before many days you'll see your club-house sailing back here, with Queen Elizabeth at the hellum, and the other ladies on the for'ard deck knittin 'and crochetin', and tearin 'each other to pieces in
The Pursuit of the House-Boat Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq. John Kendrick Bangs 1892
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So, naturally the body politic emits thirsty ejaculations of surprise and ports hellum for the Blue Snake.
The Gentle Grafter O. Henry 1886
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But while we was huntin 'for a place we came across a narrer creek, just wide enough for us to pull into; and Tonkin up's hellum and says as we'll try in there.
A Middy in Command A Tale of the Slave Squadron Harry Collingwood 1886
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