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At last, the Professor requests the qaouaji to obtain camel-udder boxes for him forten francs apiece, and being told they arebrought in only by the Reguibat and they aren't wanted by the townspeople, the Professor insists.
Writing 2009
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I would therefore like to invite you to stay with me in New York forten days, so that we may get to know each other better.
Dance Of Death Preston, Douglas 2005
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I tell one, and I ast him wot about, and he sed: "Wel Johnny, as you got to do the tellin I'le leav the choice of subjeck entirely to you; jest giv us some thing about a little boy that went and sook his forten."
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"I wish it had been my forten to carry you into the house," says John.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various
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Every man was quiverin 'with excitement; but I watched calmly, and, as soon as I spied her whitenin' under water, I sent my lance arter her without orders, and by good forten sunk it into her very life -- full length.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various
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So I sed: "One time there was a little boy went out for to seek his forten, and first thing he see was great big yello posy on a punkin vine."
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We’ve been working with these people forten years.
Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006
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We’ve been working with these people forten years.
Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006
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We’ve been working with these people forten years.
Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006
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Wen the boy was a seekn his forten in the stummeck of the wales belly he cut to a fence, an wen he had got over the fence he found hisself in a rode runin thru a medder, and it was a ofle nice country fur as he cude see. "
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