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- phrase obsolete Contraction of
how it .
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Examples
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But Massa and Missus felt kind of anxious, and they v'e gone into Court, with other gemmen and ladies, to hear how't goes.
Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick Mrs. William T. Savage
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What added point and weight to these final remarks of old Israel was the well-known fact that he suffered at home from the most pecking and worrying of wives, and had been heard to say in some moment of unusual frankness that he "didn't see how't could be sinful to wish Miss Slater was in heaven, for she'd be lots better off, and other folks too!"
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various
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'There's how't seems hard, thet it must come to Christmas.
Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. Various
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"But 's how't the man that refuses to accept it, when it's set before him, is done reckoned a sinner?"
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various
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In sooth she's mickle anxious/how't with my brother be.
The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914
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And who had gone to her rest holding to her thin breast a rag-doll that was kin to her by bornation, Loujaney being poor folks herself and knowing prezactly how't was.
Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905
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Wallen down this way to show what he could do alone, for he was always braggin 'about bein' so stiddy on his sea-legs, and how't he understood this shore better'n any o 'the old uns.
Cape Cod Folks Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895
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"Lord sakes!" said Captain Leezur, turning on me with deep-smitten dismay; "I heered how't he was bein 'successful!"
Vesty of the Basins Sarah P. McLean Greene 1895
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I heered Carline Gallup say how't Kesier Winkle -- Why, Kier, what do you mean by offerin 'the cold pork to Mr. Crane? jest as if he wanted pork for his tea!
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) Various 1887
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"Ay, ay, Ned; you're right, bo '; that's just exactly how't was," was the reply.
The Voyage of the Aurora Harry Collingwood 1886
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