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  • Her een's like the sea and her hair's like the nicht;

    My Lassie She's Bonnie 1996

  • But ez I wuz a-sayin ', he tuk de ham ober ter Aun' Peggy's; en Aun 'Peggy tole' im dat w'en Mars Dugal 'begin ter prume de grapevimes, he mus' go en take 'n scrape off de sap whar it ooze out'n de cut een's er de vimes, en' n'int his ball head wid it; en ef he do dat once't a year de goopher wouldn 'wuk agin' im long ez he done it.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

  • But ez I wuz a-sayin ', he tuk de ham ober ter Aun' Peggy's; en Aun 'Peggy tole' im dat w'en Mars Dugal 'begin ter prume de grapevimes, he mus' go en take 'n scrape off de sap whar it ooze out'n de cut een's er de vimes, en' n'int his ball head wid it; en ef he do dat once't a year de goopher wouldn 'wuk agin' im long ez he done it.

    The Goophered Grapevine 1887

  • I'm dat flustrated twel I dunner w'ich een's up, skacely.

    Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • I'm dat flustrated twel I dunner w'ich een's up, skacely.

    Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878

  • And then the Q. Patricks remarked that sooner or later every mystery novelist follows in the footsteps of Q.een's THE DUTCH SHOE MYSTERY and takes a whack at murder in a hospital.

    In The Queens' Parlour Queen, Ellery 1864

  • A judge of the Q.een's Bench has died: you, Mr. Verjuice, know how Mr. Swetter, Q. C., has been rising at the bar; you know how well he deserves the ermine.

    The Recreations of a Country Parson Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd 1862

  • I never ask what brings the Laird of Dumbiedikes glowering here like a wull-cat (only his een's greener, and no sae gleg), day after day, till we are a 'like to gaunt our charts aft.' '

    The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

  • Q. Q.een's Gardens, Columlms's arrival at, in his third voyage; archipelago of, discovered.

    The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Volume II) Washington Irving 1821

  • 'Ay, Tib, that will be when the deil's blind; and his een's no sair yet.

    Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801

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