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  • Willy jes 'gwi' let you get 'way, but a _man_ got you now, wha'ar' been handlin 'horses an' know how to hole 'em in the stalls.

    Two Little Confederates Thomas Nelson Page 1887

  • Marse Wes ain 'gwi' let any stranger come on dis place an 'cut his wheat -- you know he ain'. "

    O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 Various

  • For example, may be variously transliterated as gwi, kwi, kw, or qui, but the combined syllables meaning “star” are not frozen in place, and can be interwoven with syllables expressing other concepts to form new “words,” which more closely resemble what in English would be sentences.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • For example, may be variously transliterated as gwi, kwi, kw, or qui, but the combined syllables meaning “star” are not frozen in place, and can be interwoven with syllables expressing other concepts to form new “words,” which more closely resemble what in English would be sentences.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • I shall suttenly enjine yo 'fathah to done gin' yo 'plow-hoss to ride so yo's gwi' git beat wiff yo 'racin', and quit.

    Down the Mother Lode Vivia Hemphill 1911

  • I bin er-sayin 'an' er-sayin 'all erlong dat de kerridge gwi' git broke, an 'it's done been did.

    A Virginia girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865, by ed. Myrta Lockett Avary 1903

  • I said Miss Sally's kerridge gwi 'git ruint! and now it's done been did.

    A Virginia girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865, by ed. Myrta Lockett Avary 1903

  • "Dar ain't no tellin 'what's gwi' happen now!" he exclaimed.

    A Virginia girl in the Civil War, 1861-1865, by ed. Myrta Lockett Avary 1903

  • Dat yeller gal ain 'got no reason-mint she am dat set on habin' dem beads "; a plug of tobacco" fur de old man's Christmus "; a jew's-harp" fur Sam; dat chile gwi 'l'arn music, he am "; a doll" fur Lill

    The Heart of Old Hickory and Other Stories of Tennessee 1895

  • "Oh, well, I'm _gwi'_ do it; ain't you hear me say I'm gwine do it?" he laughed as he went out.

    Two Little Confederates Thomas Nelson Page 1887

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