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I not only did myself the honour of jining, but also of lengthening it out.
Mugby Junction 2007
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I not only did myself the honour of jining, but also of lengthening it out.
Mugby Junction 2007
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Wilders lived on a jining plantation to where I wus borned.
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We'd as soon think of goin 'to h---- ll in summer time, as of jining partnership with her.
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore
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I married Isom Love, a slave of Sam Love, another full-blood Indian that lived on a jining farm.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration
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That left only three whites out of the plot -- the Lascars had all been bribed or frightened into jining in with t'others -- and, out of us three, two was lying on deck, lashed hands and heels together when I come up through the fore-scuttle.
For Treasure Bound Harry Collingwood 1886
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Yates; it was him that put the Greens up to jining teams with my grandfather when he moved west.
Roughing It Mark Twain 1872
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Yates; it was him that put the Greens up to jining teams with my grandfather when he moved west.
Roughing It, Part 6. Mark Twain 1872
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I not only did myself the honor of jining, but also of lengthening it out.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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"Gents," said Steel Spring, waving his hand with an attempt to do the genteel, "allow me to introduce Mr. Jackson, a covey vot is desirous of jining our select society, provided, as the land sharks say, you is villing."
The Gold Hunters' Adventures Or, Life in Australia William Henry Thomes 1859
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