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Examples
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"You ain't goin 'to cruelize him with that name, be you?"
The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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But to think of him carryin 'her off the Lord knows where, to neglect her and cruelize her, and to let her grow up among fellers like him, I-- I-- by the big dipper, I can't do it!
Cy Whittaker's Place Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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She used to visit de cabins, an 'listen to de pore women when de overseer used to cruelize dem so bad, an drive dem to work late and early.
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"She was at my house yesterday, trying to comfort me, when I was telling her how these Secesh used to _cruelize_ us."
Minnie's Sacrifice Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1868
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"I found him settin 'alongside the peanut roaster, watchin' a couple of patients cruelize the pool table.
The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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