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The ritual passing of the DNA, momma's cork-screw curls, his granddaddy's lower lip, ah buh-lieve thuh chil'ren ah thuh future.
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Yeah, I's just thinkin 'bout the good times, chil'ren, that I, I once have had
Son House Lyrics 2009
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Also, if I read it then I get brownie points =D 3. Myself.. and I would love to pass it on to my chil'ren =
A Gift for My Readers Tarie 2008
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'Our brudders, 'I say, my chil'ren,' case ebery one dat de Lord hab made am brudders to you and to me, whedder dey'm bad or good, white or brack.
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore
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It'm done now, and you kin cum in; your room am jess ready, and ole Sal and de chil'ren dat I tuk 'way from you eber so long ago, and dat you mourned ober and cried ober as ef you'd neber see dem agin, dey'm dar too, all on 'em, a waitin' for you.
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore
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'The loryer yere, hes spread hisself on Mulock's motive fur doin' this thing; 'sistin' thet fur seventeen yar he's ben a nussin 'suthin -- nussin' it as keerfully as a mother nusses her chil'ren.
The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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I've got a wife an 'chil'ren, an' the 'wouldn't live 'mong ye abolitionists, nohow.'
The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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"Come now, my chil'ren," said the old preacher, kneeling down, "let us pray."
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore
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When wife and chil'ren wid me, I'll sing in Paradise,
Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter William Wells Brown
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Till I wake up from my dreaming, and wife and chil'ren gone,
Clotelle; or, the Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; or, the President's Daughter William Wells Brown
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