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  • Well, my mama she done told me. pap's done told me too

    Arthur Big Boy Crudup Lyrics 2009

  • So she had gone into the kitchen to beat some biscuit, and was busily engaged when Caroline darkened the kitchen door, long enough to exclaim, "Mammy, pap's done got home" -- and disappeared.

    Bond and Free: A Tale of the South 1984

  • And, "Jeff an 'me thinks it's about time pap's word went with his boys," put in the younger and more emotional Andy.

    Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan

  • "And won't they hurt pap's cow-critters, neither?"

    The Moving Picture Girls in War Plays Or, The Sham Battles at Oak Farm Laura Lee Hope

  • "Wall, I'm goin 'to larn 'em, and when I get out to pap's I'll win all the money them gol-darned cow-boys hev got."

    Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi George H. Devol

  • A little later he had sullenly harnessed up a mule of Blatch's and, with Iley and the children, started for old Jesse Spiller's, out at Big Buck Gap, the sister maintaining to the last that Huldah must certainly have gone out to pap's, and would be found waiting for them at the old home.

    Judith of the Cumberlands Alice MacGowan

  • I was a kid on my pap's farm out there, eighty miles beyond the ridge, instead of playing with the kids that used to torment me because I was a heavy, I just used to lay out evenings like this on a hay-rack or something and look and look and look.

    Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Fannie Hurst 1928

  • "'Course," said Judy, solemnly; "'course you just naturally got ter stay an' take care of her now, after what pap's done said he'd do."

    The Re-Creation of Brian Kent Harold Bell Wright 1908

  • An 'pap, he knows er man over in Gardner what's on the railroad, you see, what'll let him have money enough for the trip, -- a licker-man, he is, -- an' pap's aimin 'ter make hit over ter Gardner ter git the money in time ter ketch that there early mornin' train.

    The Re-Creation of Brian Kent Harold Bell Wright 1908

  • An 'pap's goin' too, an 'Dave an' Billy have gone.

    The Long Roll Mary Johnston 1903

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