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Joe was kerried out to sea, an 'in a strange land met up with a citizen as took him home to his wife.
Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast Frank V. Webster
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Mr. Bull opened the ball, that morning, by observing, with a half wink at me, that 'he see she hadn't been kerried off yet,' which referred to a previously expressed objection on the part of Miss Friggs to sleep without some secure fastening on the door of her room; and people in the country can never understand why you should want anything different from the existing state of things.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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You wasn't here and the Boarder kerried his dinner.
Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley Belle Kanaris Maniates
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"Yuh act like yuh kerried sumthin ''long wid yuh, younker?"
Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat St. George Rathborne
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I kerried that piller-case over my shoulder, and slung from the other shoulder was a gun, and I had a hatchet in my belt.
How Janice Day Won Helen Beecher Long
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Ginnle remarks; continooed; kerried on; pushed furder; kind o 'gin out.
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Page 169 he done tuk dat wood dat Isuk kerried an 'put it under de altur to start de fire.
John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher William Eldridge 1908
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Page 112 important bisnis ter attend ter; an 'very soon he went ter de king an' kerried wid him de secrit dat de king had demandid at de han's uv de erstrolgers an 'magishuns.
John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher William Eldridge 1908
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She kerried her haid up in de air jus 'lak you do, an' she wuz jus 'as putty as you is, too.
Sandy Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906
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'Some ornery critter kem along while I was upstairs,' says she, 'an' seed it lyin 'thar on the table, an' kerried it off! 'says she.
Queen Hildegarde Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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