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  • "Unt dey can't shoot him, or hit him mit a club over der head alongside, or do nodings more mit him?"

    JAN, THE UNREPENTANT 2010

  • Then he mounted the tongue of the mess-wagon and called out, "We haf for breakfast cackle-berries, first vot iss come iss served, und those vot iss sleep late gets nodings."

    Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart

  • Mrs. Louderer declared she was "so mat as nodings and would fire dot Herman so soon as she could see him alreaty."

    Letters of a Woman Homesteader Elinore Pruitt Stewart

  • Hang it all, a man doesn't come in and go to bed and walk away again 'mid nodings on' in the middle of the night.

    Whose Body? Dorothy Leigh 1923

  • "Unt dey can't shoot him, or hit him mit a club over der head alongside, or do nodings more mit him?"

    Jan, the Unrepentant 1901

  • And I vas not vould go, not for nodings; but I vas vant de tousand pounds.

    The Admirable Tinker Child of the World Edgar Jepson 1900

  • Und he was always politeful to me except when I talk too long to Bertran und say nodings at all to him.

    Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • I tell you dere was nodings in dot room dot might be a woman.

    Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • "Unt dey can't shoot him, or hit him mit a club over der head alongside, or do nodings more mit him?"

    The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke Jack London 1896

  • Germany has nodings to teach him, he has to teach Germany.

    The Melting-Pot Israel Zangwill 1895

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