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  • She an 'Marse Chan still set a heap o' sto 'by one' nurr, but I don 'think dey wuz easy wid each urr ez when he used to tote her home from school on his back.

    Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

  • "A secon'-han 'sto' ovuh on the avynoo, where they got swaller-tail suits all way f'um sevum dolluhs to nineteem dolluhs an 'ninety-eight cents."

    Seventeen 1915

  • They's a secon'-han 'sto' ovuh on the avynoo, where they got swaller-tail suits all way f'um sevum dolluhs to nineteem dolluhs an 'ninety-eight cents.

    Seventeen 1915

  • But a man sets a heap mo 'sto' by his wife if she ain't too inquirin 'upon the subject.

    The Miller of Old Church 1911

  • The willing assistance of his new friend would leave his own time free for more important duties, and the advertising work once done, Licorice Stick was to devote his time to catching fish for the "sto" and other incidental duties.

    Pee-Wee Harris Percy Keese Fitzhugh 1913

  • I reckon, ef he'd got de colic you'd have kilt 'im terreckly, you en yo' sto 'physicks en yo' real doctahs!

    The Voice of the People Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

  • They's a secon'-han 'sto' ovuh on the avynoo, where they got swallertail suits all way f'um sevum dolluhs to nineteem dolluhs an 'ninety-eight cents.

    Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907

  • "A secon'-han 'sto' ovuh on the avynoo, where they got swaller-tail suits all way f'um sevum dolluhs to nineteem dolluhs an 'ninety-eight cents."

    Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family Especially William Booth Tarkington 1907

  • When Chan Tow finis ', magistrate say:' My de-ah brudder de highrob, yo 'sto'y vay intinesse, vay intinesse!

    Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

  • _What I want_ is _that swingin 'ice-pitcher_, an' my judgment tells me thet they ain't a more suitable present in yo 'sto'e for a settled man thet has built hisself a residence an' furnished it complete the way _he_ has, but of co'se

    Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886

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