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  • Even lyin 'in the furrer is vanity and vexation, eh?

    Old Baldy 1993

  • Layin 'down in the furrer ain't what it's cracked up to be, an' you'll git a-mighty sick on it before yer done with me.

    Old Baldy 1993

  • 'Old on, Guv'nor, lemme ashk you thish question, 'fore we go any furrer.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 23, 1892 Various

  • He's got a hard furrer to plough; and yet I don't s'pose there's much harm in him,

    Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 Various

  • "Ha'af in the furrer an 'other ha'af in the muck-heap, as Ca'houn did not say, an' makes out he's a fisherman!"

    Captains Courageous Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • He war a boss-fiddler, he war, an 'jus' that powerful, dat when de mules in de cotton field listen to um, dey no budge in de furrer.

    The Book of Romance Andrew Lang 1878

  • "Won't go no furrer, then, Master Mark?" said the boy.

    The Black Tor A Tale of the Reign of James the First George Manville Fenn 1870

  • "I'm 'most sure I saw her -- the same woman -- two days ago, and no furrer off than Gower Street," she said.

    The Vicar's Daughter George MacDonald 1864

  • "Thar's no fear o 'them comin' arter us any furrer, I reck'n," says the old sealer, in a glad voice.

    The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure Mayne Reid 1850

  • Thur's a grist o ''em -- more'n a hundred -- on t'other side; an' most o 'the men who got clur tuk furrer down.

    The Scalp Hunters Mayne Reid 1850

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