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  • What they took from the worker simply disappeared; it was w asted or taken out of the country, abroad.

    SPEECH ON EACH SUGAR MILL A FORTRESS BY CASTRO 1960

  • "You'd 'a' heard 'em all right if you had asted me," said the old man, thoughtfully scratching his head near where a bald spot was plainly showing.

    The Boy Ranchers in Death Valley or Diamond X and the Poison Mystery Willard F. Baker

  • But I ain't ever asted him, and whut's more, I never will.

    The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • Hank, he looks at me like I'd asted fur a house 'n' lot, or a million dollars, or something like that.

    Danny's Own Story 1912

  • They was lots of kids there that had to go to school, but Hank, he never would of let me done that if I had ast him, and I never asted.

    Danny's Own Story 1912

  • He never had none himself, and he was sot agin it, and he never made me get none, and if I'd ever asted him for any he'd of whaled me fur that.

    Danny's Own Story 1912

  • But I ain't ever asted him, and whut's more, I never will.

    Sundry Accounts 1910

  • Mr Cloade, he called me into his little office, asted me what I'd been doing, where I went, an 'where I got the oranges.

    A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900

  • One day I stayed home more'n an hour to breakfast, an 'one on 'em asted me wer I'd a-been, an' I said as I'd had me half-hour to breakfast, an 'he said as I'd had an hour an' a half, an 'I told' en

    A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900

  • Peeliky says he is going to play some day. he doesnt know what he will play but he wil play sumthing. i asted father why he dident play in the band and he sed they was dam fools enuf in the wirld without he being one. i was going to ast him to by me a cornet but i desided

    Brite and Fair Worth Brehm 1899

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