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When we piled off the express at Wilkes-Barre I charters a flivver taxi, and after a half hour's drive with a speed maniac who must have thought he was pilotin 'a DeHaviland through the clouds we're landed in the middle of this forsaken, one horse dump, consistin' of a double row of punk tenement blocks and a sprinklin 'of near-beer joints that was givin' their last gasp.

Torchy As A Pa Sewell Ford 1907

I said, 'an' o 'what furious an' rummy things consistin '-- marches to an' fro, short commons, shootin's of cannon, rapes, an 'other bloodthirsty goin's-on; an' here we be in the midst thereof!

Nicky-Nan, Reservist Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

But whin things gets goin 'right undher this administhration, th' civil sarvice commission consistin 'iv th' Hon.

Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

Maine, an 'a comity iv citizens consistin' iv some iv the best gun fighters iv th 'state ar-re meetin' to decide how th 'conthroversay can be decided without loss iv blood or jobs.

Mr. Dooley's Philosophy Finley Peter Dunne 1901

Fin'lly ye set off with th 'fleet, consistin' iv a ship f'r ye'ersilf, three f'r th 'provisions, two f'r th' clothes an 'wan f'r th' diaries.

Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

A natural phenomenon of my standing couldn't -- simply _couldn't_, Richard -- go back to the profession with a wardrobe consistin 'of two pink night-shirts, both the worse for wear.

The Mother Norman Duncan 1893

Part o 'that cap'tal, "he resumed," consistin' of a quarter an 'some odd cents, was invested in the cirkis bus'nis, an' the rest on't -- the cap'tal, an 'all the cash cap'tal that I started in bus'nis with -- was the ten cents your husband give me that day, an' here, "said David, striking the papers in his left hand with the back of his right," _here_ is the _dividends_!

The Christmas Story from David Harum Edward Noyes Westcott 1872

We had a large troop onto our hands, consistin 'of eight tragedians and a bass drum, but

Artemus Ward 1865

You will find a happy united famerly, consistin 'of me and my wife,

Facing the World Horatio Alger 1865

But his glory! consistin 'in his trowth an' lovin'kindness -- (man! that's a bonny word) -- an 'grand self-forgettin' devotion to his creaters -- lord! man, it's unspeakable.

David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864