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  • "Doin 'wrong, Clarsie, ter aid folks what air a-doin' wrong, an 'mebbe hev done wrong, air powerful hurtful ter everybody, an' henders the law an 'jestice."

    In the Tennessee mountains, pseud. Charles Egbert Craddock 1885

  • "Aint there nobody," said Deacon Peasley, caressing his knee, and looking fondly at the stove door, "that could kind o 'go to him, and sort o' set it in order afore him how he henders the very thing he's sot on doin '?"

    Poganuc People: Their Loves and Lives 1878

  • The hendier 'tis for Guv'ment, sence it henders trouble brewin ';

    The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

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