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Examples
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"It don't seem jestly right to me, but then he's got the resate, an 'your mother signed it -- an' there 'tis!"
Meadow Grass Tales of New England Life Alice Brown 1902
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All my cattle's out but this critter, 'n' I don't jestly want to have nobody drive her that ain't pretty car'ful, -- she's faast, I tell ye, -- don't want no whip.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Washin'ton, or somewhere else, -- I don't jestly know where.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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All my cattle's out but this critter, 'n' I don't jestly want to have nobody drive her that ain't pretty car'ful, -- she's faast, I tell ye, -- don't want no whip.
The Guardian Angel Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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Mrs Harris jestly says to me, but t'other day, "Oh! Sairey Gamp," she says, "how is it done?"
Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841
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Harris jestly says to me, but t’other day, “Oh! Sairey
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"Well, the young squire, he's off travellin 'somewhere in the West, or to Washin'ton, or somewhere else, -- I don't jestly know where.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various
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"I ca'n 'jestly tell y' what it was, Doctor," the old woman answered, as if bewildered and trying to clear up her recollections; "but it was somethin 'fearful, with a great noise' n 'a great cryin' o 'people, -- like the Las' Day, Doctor!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various
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"I ca'n 'jestly tell y' what it was, Doctor," the old woman answered, as if bewildered and trying to clear up her recollections; "but it was somethin 'fearful, with a great noise' n 'a great cryin' o 'people, -- like the Las' Day, Doctor!
Elsie Venner Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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"Well, the young squire, he's off travellin 'somewhere in the West, or to Washin'ton, or somewhere else, -- I don't jestly know where.
The Guardian Angel Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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