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  • I was a-bout to say that Oz-ma sent us to wel-come you and in-vite you to come straight to the Em-er-ald Ci-ty.

    Love Letters 2010

  • A being at the hack of the crowd, a Quillp in full postmating plumage, craned its thin ostrichlike neck forward and asked in a high, squeaky voice, 'In what summer-month my hatchlings come a-bout will?'

    The Tar-Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • A being at the hack of the crowd, a Quillp in full postmating plumage, craned its thin ostrichlike neck forward and asked in a high, squeaky voice, 'In what summer-month my hatchlings come a-bout will?'

    The Tar-Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1983

  • A being at the hack of the crowd, a Quillp in full postmating plumage, craned its thin ostrichlike neck forward and asked in a high, squeaky voice, 'In what summer-month my hatchlings come a-bout will?'

    Tar Aiym Krang Foster, Alan Dean 1972

  • The gar-ret was ver-y large; and their mam-ma could hear them as they tramped a-long, and could hear Tom's com-mand to right a-bout face when they had reached the farth-er end.

    Monkey Jack and Other Stories

  • Then, com-ing back, he took the bas-ket and all the ap-ples that lay a-bout, and went back to the field and the men ate them all for lunch-eon.

    Monkey Jack and Other Stories

  • The sto-ries Grand-ma liked best to tell were "true sto-ries" of the days when her own chil-dren were small, and A-my liked best to hear a-bout her own fa-ther and what he did when he was a child.

    Pages for Laughing Eyes Unknown

  • So poor Sam had a good bed to sleep in that night, and next morn-ing the two boys went to see a-bout work for him.

    Monkey Jack and Other Stories

  • It would make too long a sto-ry to tell ev-er-y thing a-bout that show.

    Pages for Laughing Eyes Unknown

  • He was such a pret-ty lit-tle cat as to be made a great pet and used to trot a-bout af-ter the peo-ple like a lit-tle dog.

    Monkey Jack and Other Stories

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