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Or, to be preceese, Bell no more than twisted the Kite oot from under her bows, and there was a little damnin 'betwix' the twa bridges.
The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900
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I fink I seez yer prollem, you got flop on der wiffle bar, praps iffen yo gib it a hitch betwix der wivver and de werx?
Yep, I see your problem - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Than the king kest abak his handis betwix the tindis of this hart, to haif savit him fra the strak thairof; and the haly croce slaid, incontinent, in his handis.
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April 21, 2008 at 4:35 pm won ob hours wuz inside ob wall betwix de studs on de furst flor ob a tu stori Viktorin haus.
i has a cheezie - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Now, the elected officials are showing lots of daylight betwix themselves and Chimpy, the Rove meat grinder has been monkey-wrenched courtesy of Fitzmas, and all the Repubs got out of it was a sham vote that didn't fool anyone with two brain cells to rub together.
Don't take my Word for It Rogers 2005
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Our two dogs tuck and run and holler and stick dey tails betwix dey legs like somebody a-whipping dem.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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Is a meane betwix to moche & to lytell/& it standeth in takynge suffycyently [that] nedeth & in refusyng
A Ryght Profytable Treatyse Compendiously Drawen Out Of Many and Dyvers Wrytynges Of Holy Men Thomas Betson
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'He wad tak the boy betwix his legges at the fire in winter, and blessing him say -- "My sillie fatherless and motherless chyld, it's ill to wit what God may mak of thee yet!"'
Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series William Morison
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The only diff'rence betwix 'them an' the Baptis 'is that they are willin' to jine in with any other rigiment, provided allers that you let them 'pint the sappers an' miners an 'blaze out the way.
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore
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"But now, suppose," said the old man, "I'd tell you about somethin 'you had never seed -- that, for instance, sence you've been an outcast from society an' a livin 'in this cave, I've seed men talk to each other a hundred miles apart, with nothin' but a wire betwix '' em."
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore
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