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Examples
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The toast was drunk from a black bottle which the "capting" handed to
As We Sweep Through The Deep Gordon Stables 1875
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Fortunately some of the latter have retained a few functioning brain cells, capting through the static of the MSM information based on facts.
Think Progress » Friedman Blasts Liberals, Claims They Believe Arabs Are ‘Incapable Of Democracy’ 2007
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Hengland floating at the mask — head, the steward a-getting ready the basins and things, the capting proudly tredding the deck and giving orders to the salers, the white rox of Albany and the bathin-masheens disappearing in the distans — then, then I felt, for the first time, the mite, the madgisty of existence.
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But the capting! — oh, this capting! — this windy, spouting captain, with his prittinesses, and conseated apollogies for the hardness of his busm, and his old, stale, vapid simalies, and his wishes to be a bee!
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At length our capting drew up at the key, and our journey was down.
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"Owdashus cuss!" yelled the capting, "away with thee or I shall do mur - rer-der-r-r!"
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"I tell ye what, capting!" said he, passing his quid over from his right cheek to his left; "I calkilate, capting," he continued, "we'd better leave the poor devils of dons alone."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various
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"Oh, it's fo 'you all right," said the negro, decidedly, "fo 'de capting p'inted yo' out on de street las 'ebenin'."
For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store Lurana W. Sheldon
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The capting of the S.J. is on the pint of givin in, when a fine lookin feller in russet boots and a buffalo overcoat rushes forored and obsarves:
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The pirut capting isn't a man of much principle, and intends to kill all the people on bored the Sary and confiscate the walleables.
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