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  • "Yo look as if yo an 'th' missus had had a fallin 'out an' yo'n getten th 'worst o' th 'bargain," one of his comrades said by way of rough jest.

    One Day at Arle 1996

  • "It warn't no fault o 'yo'n dat dat ain't gray," she said sadly, noticing the hair.

    Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955

  • 'So yo'n put away owd Chris,' she said, as soon as Mr. Penrose had taken his seat by her side.

    Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

  • We'll keep ou 'money tergether, an' w'at I makes shill be ez much yo'n ez mine, an 'w'at you makes shill be ez much mine ez yo'n, an' w'at we bofe makes shill belong ter bofe of us.

    The Partners 1901

  • It wuz her dyin 'wish, an' on it I will ac ', ef it is also yo'n.'

    The Marrow of Tradition 1895

  • Lay down yo'n, an 'we'll lay down ou'n, -- we didn' take 'em up fust; but we ain 'gwine ter let you bu'n down ou' chu'ches an 'school'ouses, er dis hospittle, an' we ain 'comin' out er dis house, where we ain 'disturbin' nobody, fer you ter shoot us down er sen 'us ter jail.

    The Marrow of Tradition 1895

  • 'Clah to goodness if dat conceit o' yo'n strikes in, Jasper, it gwine to kill you sho '.

    The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson 1893

  • "It warn't no fault o 'yo'n dat dat ain't gray," she said sadly, noticing the hair.

    The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson 1893

  • I ain't stole nuffin 'o' yo'n, an 'I was comin' back.

    The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889

  • "I 'low you labo'in' de mos 'to git dat wife o' yo'n a new dress," and her tormentor's guffaw seemed to admit some such benevolent intention.

    The heart of happy hollow A collection of stories Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889

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