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  • And when you caan't afford this robbery, you'll be taxed and everyone wins except those who need the help the most!

    Key groups push for Senate health care bill 2009

  • Well you caan't haandle the truth! he declared in an exaggeratedly flat monotone, his eyebrows drawn up into devilish peaks.

    The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

  • Well you caan't haandle the truth! he declared in an exaggeratedly flat monotone, his eyebrows drawn up into devilish peaks.

    The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

  • Well you caan't haandle the truth! he declared in an exaggeratedly flat monotone, his eyebrows drawn up into devilish peaks.

    The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001

  • "I caan't go to rest 'tell I'm christened," said the seal.

    Drolls From Shadowland

  • May-be he's all jest 'z he ought to be, -- I caan't say that he a'n't, -- but he's aout late nights,' n 'lurkin' raoun 'jest' z ef he wuz spyin 'somebody;' n 'somehaow I caan't help mistrustin' them

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

  • "W'll, no, -- I caan't say that I hev," Abel answered.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various

  • An 'I caan't bide in the streets, so I axes you to keep me till Mister Jan do come to fetch me.

    Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • Now I'll leave 'e; an' I'm sorry, Mary Chirgwin, as you caan't find it in your heart to help me, but so the Lard wills it.

    Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • 'Tis 'mazin' straange, but her've gone, like a dream, an 'us caan't find a sign of her.

    Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

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