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So pops I in, and paddles I down, till I comes to the rocks, -- and ar'n't they beauties?
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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Didn't he fling me, and kick me, and bite me into the bargain, the cursed savage? and ar'n't you got him ag'in as good as ever?
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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"It ar'n't to be done, gaffer," said Joseph, resolutely stopping short, and setting up the ladder in the roadway.
Aunt Rachel David Christie Murray
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'H'yar goes for grim death and massacreation,' says I, and tuck the shoot; and if I didn't fetch old dug-out through slicker than snakes, and faster than a well-greased thunderbolt, niggurs ar'n't niggurs, nor Injuns Injuns: and, strannger, if you axes me why, h'yar's the wharfo '--' twar because I thought of anngelliferous madam!
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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But it's all for the good of anngelliferous madam: and so, if thar's any hard rubbing, or drowning, or anything-of that synommous natur ', to happen, it ar'n't a thing to be holped no how.
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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"You think, p'r'aps, that your goings on, young Mr Rayleigh, ar'n't known; but they are though."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 Various
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Doesn't my nose glow like coral -- ar'n't my chops radiant as a rainbow -- hath not my hunch gone up at least two inches -- am I not, from crown to toe-nails, brightened, sublimated?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 24, 1841 Various
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As they passed, our men made many good-natured remarks, as, "Well, boys, you're tired of soldiering, ar'n't you?"
The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer John Beatty
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"What's the good o 'namin' him, and allus talkin 'about him, when yer don't never know as he ar'n't byside ye?"
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Stackpole? and ar'n't I come to lick all that's agin you, Mingo, Shawnee,
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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