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Examples
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"Tell them to come forred and fill their baskets."
Medoline Selwyn's Work Hattie E. Colter
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I don't know a bit about botany, an 'here I'm runnin' fer a Councillor, an 'lookin' forred to the Local House.
The Fourth Watch 1910
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"Ye see, sir," he went on earnestly, "a gun ought not to rekyle, and ef hit rekyles at all, hit ought to rekyle a leetle forred ----"
The Southerner A Romance of the Real Lincoln Thomas Dixon 1905
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Lors knows ef I don't fetch up a whole heap o 'wittels ebery night for Miss Caterpillar from dis time forred, so I will –' deed me!
The Hidden Hand 1888
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She had a little smooth face shaped like a aig; that curly hair hangin 'clean to her waist, dark like this baby's, but with the sun all through it; these eyebrows o' his'n that's lifted in the middle o 'his forred, like he cain't see why some onkindness was did him; and little slim hands and feet; all mighty furrin to the mountains.
Southern Lights and Shadows William Dean Howells 1878
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We found him a rakin 'over the ashes he'd helped to make, and when he saw his friends a comin' he tried to make us surrender, and I let him have a ball in his forred.
Sea-Gift. A Novel. Edwin Wiley 1873
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Why, man alive! what _are_ you a-gurnin 'at? an' what are you a-smackin 'your forred wi' your 'and like that for, an' a-gurnin 'in my face like a
Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873
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Australian farm, says: 'There's a fella in toon as calls hisself Colbroke, wi' a good hoose o 'wood, 15 foot length, and as by 'bout as silling o' the pearler o 'Bartram -- only lots o' rats, they do say, my lady -- a bying and sellin 'of goold back and forred wi' the diggin foke and the marchants.
Uncle Silas A Tale of Bartram-Haugh Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843
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I lost the linch pin out of my forred axle, and I turned up there to get it sot to rights.
The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830
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Dudley had disappeared; but in one of her letters, Meg, writing from her Australian farm, says: “There’s a fella in toon as calls hisself Colbroke, wi’ a good hoose o’ wood, 15 foot length, and as hy ‘bout as silling o’ the pearler o’ Bartram — only lots o’ rats, they do say, my lady — a bying and sellin’ of goold back and forred wi’ the diggin foke and the marchants.
Uncle Silas 2003
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