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  • 'O massa, massa! you muss cum ter de cabin -- Jim hab draw'd his knife, and he swar he'll kill de fuss un dat touch him!'

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various

  • "Oh, massa, massa, you muss cum ter de cabin -- Jim hab draw'd his knife, and he swar he'll kill de fuss 'un dat touch him!"

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

  • If you'd of got here on time you'd of stood a show gittin 'one of them steers that's be'n draw'd.

    The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country 1921

  • He may look an 'act like a pilgrim but, take it from me, he's a desperate character if he got Purdy after he draw'd.

    The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country 1921

  • Day before yesterday he was about as useless a lookin 'piece of bric-a-brac as ever draw'd breath -- an' look at him now!

    The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country 1921

  • "I'm glad he's draw'd that roman nose, 'cause he's the out-buckin'est outlaw that ever grow'd hair -- him an 'that pinto, yonder, that's hangin' back on the rope."

    The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country 1921

  • "Glad he draw'd first," remarked Cass Grimshaw, as he shoved a fresh cartridge into his gun.

    Prairie Flowers 1921

  • "You'll learn you this," one of the others broke in: "it will be the sweetest breath you ever draw'd when you get out that back door!"

    The Happy End Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

  • She's the willingest, the trewest, the honestest-helping woman, Mas'r Davy, as ever draw'd the breath of life.

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • - Soon as she see him, without him seeing her, all her fear and wildness returned upon her, and she fled afore the very breath he draw'd.

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

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