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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

  • 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

  • Washin'ton, or somewhere else, -- I don't jestly know where.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • 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

  • Mrs Harris jestly says to me, but t'other day, "Oh! Sairey Gamp," she says, "how is it done?"

    Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841

  • Harris jestly says to me, but t’other day, “Oh! Sairey

    The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

  • "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

  • "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

  • "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

  • "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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