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  • And I don't mean to suggest that I'm any better than anyone else — it's just's human nature in the 21st century.

    When We Look At Disaster ... 2010

  • But chiefly on the just, because The unjust hath the just's umbrella.

    The God Delusion Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 2006

  • I figgered, hell, poor critter's scarder of me than I am of it-an 'if it looks ugly t'me, reckon I must look just's ugly right back.

    Fiddler Fair Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • Well, I was mad -- I gave that whistle that Rex used to know and the dog sort of listened, then I whistled harder and the dog made a jump and broke his string and ran like a flash right to me just's if he knew I was a friend!

    Keineth Jane Abbott

  • "Boys, I'm drinking, and I don't care, fur my spunk's up, and I'd just's soon bet her all the first bet; them tarnal fellers guzzled me out of $1,000 in Cincinnater, and I wants ter get even."

    Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi George H. Devol

  • I wasn't looking to settle down here in Winton all my days; but I reckon, maybe, it's just's well -- anyhow, when I got the freedom to travel, I'd got out of the notion of it -- and perhaps, there's no telling, I might have been terribly disappointed.

    The S. W. F. Club Caroline E. Jacobs

  • I'm good enough to eat it comfortable, and I sit down to table just's if the family was all here.

    While Caroline Was Growing Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918

  • There was wanst a boss in th 'Sixth Wa-ard, an' his name was Flannagan; an 'he came fr'm th' County Clare, but so near th 'bordher line that no wan challenged his vote, an' he was let walk down Ar-rchey Road just's though he come fr'm Connock.

    Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • While they was explorin 'round in there, movin' round kind o 'cautious, the door of the cap'n's stateroom swung open with a creak, just's though somebody was a-shovin' it slow like, and the ship give a kind of a stir and a rustlin ', moanin' sound, as if she was a-comin 'to life.

    In Exile and Other Stories Mary Hallock Foote 1892

  • 'Twas a-settin 'here on this very beach at low water, just's we be now, that the old man told me fust how he picked her up.

    In Exile and Other Stories Mary Hallock Foote 1892

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