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  • Ma knowed a woman once, and everybuddy thot she was terrible cross cos she wouldn't talk at all hardly and when she died, they found she'd a tumult in her insides, and then you bet they felt good and sorry, when we're cross at home ma says it's not the strap we need, but a good dose of kastor oil or Seany and we git it too.

    Sowing Seeds in Danny Nellie L. McClung 1912

  • Ma knowed a woman once, and everybuddy thot she was terrible cross cos she would n't talk at all hardly and when she died, they found she'd a tumult in her insides, and then you bet they felt good and sorry, when we 're cross at home ma says it 's not the strap we need, but a good dose of kastor oil or Seany and we git it too.

    Sowing Seeds in Danny 1908

  • Greek for wishing to build, and the Latin _kasturio_ having the same relative but a more imperative signification; _kastor_, signifying as loving to build; _castitiator_, Latin for architect, and _casticheur_, old French for constructor.

    History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886

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