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Examples
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Yes, grandfer was a clever chap, as ye say; but I knowed a cleverer.
A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006
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"What do 'ee mean, grandfer?" said Prue between two kisses.
The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915
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"'Tis all right, grandfer, never think of it -- see there, I be smilin '!" and she kissed him many times.
The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915
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"Oh, grandfer!" said she, from the hollow of his shoulder, "'tis just -- Jarge!"
The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915
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'Twas said that my gr't-grandfer had secrets, and didn't care to talk of where he came from ....
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Yes, grandfer was a clever chap, as ye say; but I knowed a cleverer.
A Pair of Blue Eyes Thomas Hardy 1884
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You were the doublejoynted janitor the morning they were delivered and you’ll be a grandfer yet entirely when the ritehand seizes what the lovearm knows.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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“Ah, he’s his grandfer’s own grandsonn! — his grandfer were just such a nice unparticular man!” said the maltster.
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