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  • So I tromped right along 'mongst 'em, en went up on de b'iler deck en way back aft to de ladies cabin guard, en sot down dah in de same cheer dat I'd sot in mos a hund'd million times, I reckon; en it 'uz jist home ag'in, I tell you!

    Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

  • I've been 'mongst 'em, naow, they hyar last tew weeks, 'n' I allow I've had my eyes opened ter some things.

    Ramona 1921

  • Ef we wuz to go 'mongst 'em, jist we three, en say we's hungry, en ast 'em for a bite to eat, why, maybe dey's jist like yuther people.

    Tom Sawyer Abroad 1894

  • So I tromped right along 'mongst 'em, en went up on de b'iler deck en 'way back aft to de ladies' cabin guard, en sot down dah in de

    The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson 1893

  • An 'thar would hev been a fight 'mongst 'em,' ceptin 'her brother, Jacob Tyler, went along with 'em, an' tried ter keep the peace atwixt 'em.

    In the Tennessee mountains, pseud. Charles Egbert Craddock 1885

  • Ef we wuz to go 'mongst 'em, jist we three, en say we's hungry, en ast 'em for a bite to eat, why, maybe dey's jist like yuther people.

    Tom Sawyer Abroad Mark Twain 1872

  • I've been 'mongst 'em, naow, they hyar last tew weeks, 'n' I allow I've had my eyes opened ter some things.

    Ramona Helen Hunt Jackson 1857

  • 'mongst 'em all de while, an 'dey just die like rats what been pizened.

    Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration

  • "I'll warrant he's a nice handful aboard there 'mongst 'em all, with nothin 'to do but drinkin' and dice-throwin 'from mornin' to night.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

  • "But after. four years, 'mongst the wolves, how will he be?"

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

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