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Examples
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Well Dave rescued it from the bin, cut a hole in the forrid and now fires rubber bands at it to relieve tension.
Archive 2005-07-01 Kerron Cross 2005
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Then cap'n 'e'll say lay forrid there and trice up that fo'topmast stays'l brace; and there you is first' e know fifty feet above the fo 's'l boom, a takin' a good look of an hour or so at old Neptune.
Ralph Granger's Fortunes William Perry Brown 1885
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Listners never hear good ov themselves, "says he," and if Belzhebub takes anything amiss that aither you or me says in regard ov himself or his faction, let him stand forrid like a man, and never fear, I'll give him his answer.
Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885
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"Dumps, do you min 'ef the cow was to run his horns through her forrid stid of her neck?"
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"Well, then," said Diddie, "ef 'twas her forrid, I kin fix it."
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"Dumps, do you min 'ef the cow was to run his horns through her forrid stid of her neck?"
Diddie, Dumps, and Tot : Or, Plantation Child-Life Louise Clarke Pyrnelle 1878
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"Well, then," said Diddie, "ef 'twas her forrid, I kin fix it."
Diddie, Dumps, and Tot : Or, Plantation Child-Life Louise Clarke Pyrnelle 1878
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I wouldn't take the farm, or bid for it at all, unless I could bring forrid enough to stock it as I wish, an 'to lay in all that's wantin' to work it well.
Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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"So I intend, sir; and he has been spakin 'to me about comin' forrid publicly, in regard of an intention he has of writin 'a new tract consarning me, to be called the Converted Bailiff, or a Companion to the Religious Attorney; and he says, sir, that he'll get us bound up together."
Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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Go home now, and help forrid the match, if you can.
Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831
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