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  • Kek rya, -- mandy _never_ chored a kani an 'adre sixty beshes kenna' at mandy's been apre the drumyors, an 'sar dovo chirus mandy never dikked or shuned or jinned of a Romany chal's chorin yeck.

    The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

  • Outside of the cowboys who chored the firewood, I did the work.

    ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010

  • Being called a “third child” while working two jobs and doing more than my share of the household chored and requring nothing from her (she admitted) to take care of me hurts.

    The Other Side Of Anger | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • Being called a "third child" while working two jobs and doing more than my share of the household chored and requring nothing from her she admitted to take care of me hurts.

    The Other Side Of Anger 2009

  • Outside of the cowboys who chored the firewood, I did the work.

    ON THE MAKALOA MAT 1993

  • Half the gear did not work, and the other half need not be operated while the ship was an - chored.

    The Heirs of Babylon Cook, Glen 1972

  • Outside of the cowboys who chored the firewood, I did the work.

    On the Makaloa Mat 1919

  • Installment One of the Indemnity France whistles up the reserves and that chore is chored.

    One Third Off Tony Sarg 1910

  • Polycarp Jenks came ambling into the coulee, rapped perfunctorily upon the door-casing, and entered the kitchen as one who feels perfectly at home, and sure of his welcome; as was not unfitting, considering the fact that he had "chored around" for Val during the last year, and longer.

    Lonesome Land B. M. Bower 1905

  • "Why did he labor for gold in the Gentile manner, when he could have chored and cheated like a true-hearted black one?"

    Red Money Fergus Hume 1895

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