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  • The ole gunsmith and his wife was havin a bit of a financial problem,. and I get the dimm ecolection they use to take me to that grocery store up close to the Hyway,. tell me to go in and get a candy bar, .. and then be gone when I come out,.

    The Great Barrel Break-In Fad 2007

  • We dont need a public funded propagander channel that turns out Ist rate indoctrination and 3rd rate entertainment, only good for people to dimm or brainwashed to notice.

    A Terrible Day for the Conservatives... 2007

  •     Father whose eyes, care-dimm'd, wore hourly for ever a-weeping,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  •     Father whose eyes, care-dimm'd, wore hourly for ever a-weeping,

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • And mock the mocking malice of yon day-dimm'd gibbous moon.

    Ideala Sarah Grand

  • I fynd some honest men's eyes are opened, and I shall be sorie if Culloden's continue dimm.

    Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson

  • Father whose eyes, care-dimm'd, wore hourly for ever a-weeping,

    The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

  • I know that in going so far it must become very dimm, but it is almost impossible to procure ink and pens which will write, so that it has become an almost universal custom in the army -- and I believe with soldiers at other places to write with a pencil.

    Augusta County: Clinton Hatcher to Mary Anna Sibert, August 26, 1861 Clinton Hatcher 1861

  • I am still compelled to write with a lead pencil and rather a dimm one too but I hope you will excuse it without any apology especially as I am endeavoring to write you a long letter.

    Augusta County: Clinton Hatcher to Mary Anna Sibert, August 14, 1861 Clinton Hatcher 1861

  • With at times a half-dimm'd sadden'd far-off star,

    Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

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