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February 4, 2008 at 7:37 am is kitteh likking lips ober the quadrotriticaylee or razzing our dancing in skorn?
maybi shez born wit it - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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The press was loud in her prases. 1 day as I was givin a descripshun of my Beests and Snaiks in my usual flowry stile what was my skorn and disgust to see a big burly feller walk up to the cage containin my wax figgers of the Lord's last Supper, and cease Judas Iscarrot by the feet and drag him out on the ground.
Abraham Lincoln John Drinkwater 1909
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I told em that I cood do nuthin for em; but they laft me to skorn.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) Various 1887
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I've heard plenty of skorn tossed at the 'godless' or atheists from all sides of religion.
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1 day as I was givin a descripshun of my Beests and Snaiks in my usual flowry stile what was my skorn & disgust to see a big burly feller walk up to the cage containin my wax figgers of the Lords Last Supper, and cease Judas Iscarrot by the feet and drag him out on the ground.
Chapter IV 1917
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4.11.18: Thei hate, thei loue, thei skorn, thei praise, yea sure thei ca&osb; n&csb; do both
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