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  • An I'll tell you nite ittle tory to-night, tause you isn't seepy.

    Timothy's Quest A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

  • Now, 'ittle boy, I put you wif your mudder, tause mudders likes zere' ittle boys wif zem.

    Helen's Babies John Habberton 1881

  • "Ocken Hawwy, I wants my dolly's k'adle, tause my dolly's in it, an 'I want to shee her;" thus spake Toddie.

    Helen's Babies John Habberton 1881

  • But she did care, and was so hurt when Bess said, "I love my tuzzin best, tause she is twiet," that she shook poor Daisy till her teeth chattered in her head, and then fled to the barn to cry dismally.

    Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys 1871

  • Stevie wished she was a little brother, "'tause dirls ain't no dood," he said.

    A Little Girl of Long Ago Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873

  • "I will tiss Dimmy! and I tored up my hat 'tause a pin picked me," shouted Pokey, regardless of Jamie's efforts to restrain her.

    Eight Cousins Louisa May Alcott 1860

  • But she did care, and was so hurt when Bess said, "I love my tuzzin best, tause she is twiet," that she shook poor

    Little Men Louisa May Alcott 1860

  • It is a leathern thong, with which refractory urchins are recalled to a sense of their duty by the dominie, Tau -- tause -- how singular! "

    The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" George Henry Borrow 1842

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