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  • Rain, snow, or shine, the committee is on hand at the station -- the natives, of course, call it the "deepo" -- to consume borrowed tobacco and to favor Providence with its advice concerning the running of the universe.

    Cap'n Eri Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • The station -- everyone called it "deepo," of course -- was then a small red building, old and out of date, but scrupulously neat because of Captain

    The Depot Master Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • THE SHIELD (I get to watch it in reruns on a cheapo-deepo station here.)

    The Fall of Rome 2007

  • When you 'n I run into the las' dark deepo that's waitin 'fur us at the end, I hope we'll be able to show's good stiffikits as hern.

    The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories Various

  • With such a livin 'ez I've took in, I sha'n't need a bite at the Agapolis deepo.

    The Little Gold Miners of the Sierras and Other Stories Various

  • 'There's a great big choo-choo waiting at the deepo.'

    The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories 1928

  • Roberts at the hotel down by the deepo that got it.

    Charred Wood Francis Clement Kelley 1909

  • I was cal'latin 'to run acrost to the deepo and see Helen Kendall start for Boston.

    The Portygee Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • He cuts across to the railroad to have a sure footing, and strikin 'for the deepo for shelter -- near place as any except Briscoes' where he'd said good-night already and prob'ly don't wish to go back, 'fear of givin' trouble or keepin ''em up -- anybody can understand that.

    The Gentleman from Indiana Booth Tarkington 1907

  • The up train's due in forty minutes and I've got to be on hand at the deepo.

    The Rise of Roscoe Paine Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

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