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They're bold – that's what they are! and I don't know as I believe in lettin 'them vote – By Gosh!

Purple Springs 1921

"Is that what ye call lettin 'us camp out -- come home to work jest the same?"

Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned Ernest Thompson Seton 1903

No, I couldn't, with any degree of avidity, seem to fall in with the idea of lettin 'none of 'em go.

Heart of the West [Annotated] O. Henry 1886

"Measly skunk!" he panted; "a-campin 'on my trail an' lettin 'me do the work, an' then shootin 'me in the back!"

All Gold Cañon 2010

But Bill, who is only wounded, and is very angry, throws dirt in the interloper's eyes and wrestles the gun away from the man, emptying the pistol into the "Measly skunk! ... a-campin 'on my trail an' lettin 'me do the work, an' then shootin 'me in the back!"

“I ain't never goin' to work again. . . . I'm plum tired out.” 2008

The blue bellies, they're mighty obligin ''bout wearin' good shoes an 'such, an' lettin 'themselves be roped with all their plunder on.

Ride Proud, Rebel! Andre Norton 1958

"I tell yuh, sah, that if it hadn't been foh all o 'the lot that wrastled with him, he would a-come up hisself with the little gal,' stead o 'lettin' me do that same."

Chums in Dixie or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat St. George Rathborne

Yuh wanter keep shy o 'lettin' 'em git hold o 'yuh,

Afloat on the Flood Lawrence J. Leslie

An 'lettin' that alone, "he continued, again relapsing into candor," he could punch my head if he wanted to, though

Aunt Rachel David Christie Murray

_I_ was in favor o 'lettin' on him stay out in the cold, but the old man was a bernevolent old critter -- so _he_ says: 'Now, sonny, you jest come back and behave yourself, and I'll forgive you all on your old pranks, and treat you jest as I allers used ter; but, ef you won't, why, I'll make you -- that's all!'

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 Various