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'' Twa'n't called for, 'he reiterated again and again, pacing up and down and waiting for Lon McFane.
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'' Twa'n't called for, 'while Lon McFane kept grim silence.
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'' Twa'n't called for, 'he reiterated again and again, pacing up and down and waiting for Lon McFane.
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'' Twa'n't called for, 'while Lon McFane kept grim silence.
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"'Twa'n't hardly fair of you, Phil, giving me all that trouble for nothing," he was saying as he drew near, looking a little sheepish because of his recent wild sprint.
Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat St. George Rathborne
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"'Twa'n't that at all, Matty Eggleston; prove it by Ty here if either of us was afraid to go inside your old haunted mill, was we, Ty?" he exclaimed, with a fine show of righteous indignation.
Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot Alan Douglas
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"'Twa'n't right" -- and that settled it as far as he was concerned.
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"'Twa'n't b'fore your pa was made a drunkard, Ross Shelby."
The Henchman Mark Lee Luther
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"'Twa'n't about me, an' 'twa'n't sneak listenin'," bridled Jimmy.
Pollyanna 1912
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'Twa'n't till Gabe himself come up that he found the paper gone.
The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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