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Examples
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"Let me a-be!" he exclaimed with a thickness of tone which was the combined result of indignation and strong drink.
The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn J. W. Keyworth
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"Let me a-be," said Jud, but he was as pale as his captor.
That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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"Why could na he let me a-be then?" he asked irately.
That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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He wunnot let me a-be, an '-- an' he said he wanted to hear summat about th 'choild, an' gi'e me summat to help me along.
That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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"Let me a-be," she cried, sobbing in a petulant way.
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Happen he's dead; and whether he's dead or alive, yo'd better leave him a-be, an 'her too!
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He wunnot let me a-be, an '– an' he said he wanted to gi'e me summat about th 'choild, an' gi'e me summat to help me along.
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I'll promise owt yo'll ax, if yo'll let me a-be, and she hid her face upon her arms and wept aloud.
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An 'what's more, she wouldna coom in, but just gi' it me, and went her ways, as if she had na been th 'Parson's lass at aw, but just one o' th 'common koind, as knowd how to moind her own business an' leave other folkses a-be.
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"Let me a-be," said Jud, but he was as pale as his captor.
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