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  • An 'when me'n de ole man come home from de funeral -- dey buried him in de white folks' buryin'-groun, 'long side o' Miss May's little gal what died -- an 'put a tombstone at de head -- when we come home from de funeral dat night, de ole man look at de baby on my lap an' he say, 'Delphy, honey,' he say, 'I think disher baby mout be name _Grief_.'

    Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories M. T. W.

  • All the little poor Mona had managed to save went in carin 'for her sick daughter an' buryin 'her when she died.

    The Alchemist's Secret Isabel Cecilia Williams

  • But I go in for lettin 'folks believe what they've got a mind to; an' when it cornea t 'buryin' 'em it's only square t 'give 'em th' sort of send-off that they'd really like.

    The Aztec Treasure-House Thomas Allibone Janvier

  • Regairdin 'this noo kirkyaird bisness, I think it's ridic'lous to spend the toon's bawbees buyin' buryin 'grund for fowk that's no' deid.

    My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

  • That'd do instead o 'buryin' the dead ones, and it'd give us a light to get away by.

    Told in the East Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • That'd do instead o 'buryin' the dead ones, and it'd give us a light to get away by.

    Told in the East Talbot Mundy 1909

  • Her questions elicited the information that they were returning from the "buryin '" of the Widow Miller.

    The Call of the Cumberlands Charles Neville Buck 1904

  • You see, 'Liza was a great hand for deaths an' buryin's; an '' as for funerals, she'd ruther go to 'em than eat.

    Tiverton Tales Alice Brown 1902

  • You see, 'Liza was a great hand for deaths an' buryin's; an 'as for funerals, she'd ruther go to 'em than eat.

    Tiverton Tales Alice Brown 1902

  • Our cust'mary precaution iv dhrawin 'in th' pickets afther nightfall an 'buryin' our rifles, which had repeatedly failed in th 'past owin' to th 'caution iv th' Boers, wurruked admirably.

    Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

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