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  • Who got de money f'm de Bureau to s'port de school? An 'when dat was stop', who got de money f'm de Peabody Fun '?

    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

  • Dis tea an 'toast moughty good for de s'port of yo'

    Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 Carson Jay Lee

  • Then comes an old man, with a chessboard of inlaid stone, which he hasn't an idea of selling; but finds it excellent to 'move on,' without being checkmated as a beggar without visible means of s'port.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various

  • Who got de money f'm de Bureau to s'port de school?

    The March of Progress 1901

  • Who got de money f'm de Bureau to s'port de school?

    The March of Progress 1901

  • "Yes, Bre'er Nimbus, but who's a-gwine ter s'port 'em while we's waitin 'fer de white folks ter back down, I wants ter know?"

    Bricks without Straw A Novel 1880

  • "Yes, Bre'er Nimbus, but who's a-gwine ter s'port 'em while we's waitin 'fer de white folks ter back down, I wants ter know?"

    Bricks Without Straw Albion Winegar Tourg��e 1871

  • All they can raise they gin to Mr. Mordecai Rossiter, 'cause they say ef they hev to s'port a colleague it 's all they can do, 'specially sence he 's married.

    Oldtown Folks 1869

  • Sh 'said I ought be the s'port' f her ole dage, 'stid' f boozin 'roun' thish yer way.

    Duffels Edward Eggleston 1869

  • Ud you belebe it, Elder and frens, dat son-in-law ob mine offered ter s'port me an 'me do nuffin but jes' help Sissy and look arter de chil'n.

    The Earth Trembled Edward Payson Roe 1863

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