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  • "I was sick at Limerick wan night," O'Brien hurried on, '' an 'the dochtor cudn't bleed me.

    THE "FRANCIS SPAIGHT" 2010

  • I'm a regular visitor to ur blog and I just cudn't resist baking these... but somehow, as it happened to u, the tops tht had really fluffed up, sagged down when I had left them on a rack to cool.

    Pineapple Muffins 2009

  • Although I tried once but cudn't get the exact as my MIL makes but she is in jaipur so it's only diwali we get to eat.

    Food Memories, but what's the dish? 2006

  • "If it hedn't been a new jestice she cudn't hev got it out," he said apologetically.

    The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives Elizabeth Strong Worthington

  • "Yuh cudn't bear to see the Sergeant thinkin 'he loved yuh -- an' yuh knew he cudn't love a rustler."

    The Return of Blue Pete Luke Allan

  • P'raps de great sorrer war so big in har heart, dat she cudn't fine rest nowhar but in de cole, dark riber.

    Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore

  • How der chil'ren can't get no schulein ', how eben de grow'd up ones doan't know nuffin -- not eben so much as de pore brack slave,' case de 'stockracy wan't dar votes, an cudn't get 'em ef dey' low'd 'em larning.

    Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore

  • 'By --!' cried the native, reining his horse to a dead stop, and speaking in an excited manner; 'I doan't b'lieve it,' taint 't all like ye; yer a d-- d seceshener -- thet comes uv yer bringin'-up; but ye've a soul bigger'n a meetin'-house, and ye cudn't hev put thet slim, weakly gal inter th 'woods, no how!'

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • "No, massa, dar'm places dar whar de ole debble cudn't fine him, nor de dogs nudder."

    Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore

  • Den Sam took to de swamp, but he didn't know whar to gwo, and de dogs tracked him; he'd ha 'got' way dough ef ole Moye hadn't a shot him; den he cudn't run.

    Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore

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