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Examples
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Well whoop de do; I'll be sure to watch; would rather have seen Obama parden the turkey; one turkey pardening another turkey.
Oprah Winfrey to tape Christmas special at the White House 2009
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Its just a cop-out (parden the pun - not intended)!
Every Cloud « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008
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October 4, 2009 at 3:18 pm ai begg yur parden! derez noe hayr awn mai bak!
Engage tiny attack mode! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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If Obama wins, and if Bush doesn't issue a blanket parden, we can expect a partisan witch-hunt on a scale not seen since McCarthy.
One more night of convention blogging. The Invesco Field extravaganza. Ann Althouse 2008
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Back to the original point: Dale Carpenter has parden the pun hit the nail on the head.
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"I beg your parden, ser, but these are for emergency use-"
The Silent Warrior Modesitt, L. E. 1987
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"Axerden be ----, beg massa's parden; but such s'picions poison any family's peace, and make a feller done forgit hisself."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various
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-- Sir, I hope that you will parden me for riteing to you, which I know I am not worthy of, but I hope you will forgive me for all things past, for I am going to try to get a passage to the Cape deverds, and then for America.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 405, December 19, 1829 Various
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I done the best I could for 6 months it seemed like 6 years to me. my friends advised me to try for a parden so I rote to Mr Aycock in regard to the matter. he answered me at once with great sympathy telling me what I must do before he could help me.
The Life and Speeches of Charles Brantley Aycock Robert Digges Wimberly 1912
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If it was the blam of the world, good ridance and parden, if it was my blam, let them which made me come to acount for't.
The Heart's Highway: A Romance of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century 1900
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