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Kitteh sed him wuntsa kwiet spawt fur curlin uppan takin naps
Dere’s reely - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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August 21, 2008 at 9:11 am curlin ur tongue.. yr doin it rite, bhut Ima gives you props laaaaaater
monorail cat haz - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Now I can memember her playin in teh yard an chasin skwirls an curlin up on teh bed an purrin in mai eer.
curiosity killed the cat. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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I could feel my heart poundin, an my hans got cold an damp an all I coud think of was goin someplace an curlin up into a ball the way I had that time after Bubba got kilt, an so that's what I did.
Forrest Gump Groom, Winston, 1944- 1986
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At the happy, happy man, wi 'his curlin' stanes and broom;
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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'Miah wuz a stun-mason, the best there wuz in the deestrik, an' the harnsomest boy there tew, -- though I say it thet shouldn't say it, -- he hed close-curlin 'black hair, an' an arm it done ye good ter lean on.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various
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"Ay, have I," says the carlie, curlin 'up his lips gey snappish-like;
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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When the curlin 'days are o'er, a' the joys o 'life are tame --
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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Halloween, "an 'as long as a woman was handsome, with a full figger, an' sweet tempered an 'thrifty an' a good cook, with a sure hand for pastry, an 'al'ays tidy, with her hair curlin' naturally, an 'neat an' fresh without carin 'about dress, I'd have been easy to please with just the things any man might have a right to expect."
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Halloween, "an 'as long as a woman was handsome, with a full figger, an' sweet tempered an 'thrifty an' a good cook, with a sure hand for pastry, an 'al'ays tidy, with her hair curlin' naturally, an 'neat an' fresh without carin 'about dress, I'd have been easy to please with just the things any man might have a right to expect."
The Miller Of Old Church Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909
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