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I got very 'ligious 'bout dat time, but de brand got all rubbed out, when us went to work for Major Woodward.

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There were not a few who shared in her doubt whether she was "'ligious" or not, but the Reverend Mr. Birdsall was not of these.

The Earth Trembled Edward Payson Roe 1863

"I think folks had ought to be 'ligious 'cause dat is God's plan, and so

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Booth Lincoln ain't never went to bed in the daytime since we's born, an 'I ain't never hear tell of a real' ligious 'oman a-puttin 'a little boy in bed 'fore it's dark; an' I ain't never a-goin 'to meddle with yo' ole hose no mo '. "

Miss Minerva and William Green Hill Frances Boyd Calhoun 1888

A purty, young, good, r'ligious 'oman a-settin 'herself ter spen' a empty life a-waitin 'fur Steve Yates ter kum back! "

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

He had to deal daily with members of the old secular elite and bureaucracy, and run a city of more than 10 million people from every stripe of ethnic, re ligious and cultural background.

Fears for Turkey's Future Roil Vote on Constitution 2010

In our super-ligious society, does a company really want 15-year-old boys interacting with the public, no matter how much or little they are paid, when even one teenage-boy-style flip comment or sexual joke might result in a lawsuit?

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Ms. R.ley is the Journal's deputy Taste editor and the author of "God on the Quad: How R.ligious Colleges and the Missionary Generation are Changing America" (Ivan R. Dee, 2006).

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The upshot of his retreat was that Mrs. Hale and Mrs. Janders considered their husbands contemptible cowards, and said so; Kangaroo Kee, breaking down into a copious flow of tears, announced to the house that he had reconsidered his resignation because the leaders of Hawaii had magnanimously reaffirmed their belief in re - ligious freedom; the dangerous Chinese-Hawaiian-Portuguese coalition was broken up; and merchants sold more fireworks than ever before.

Hawaii Michener, James 1959

He argued wid both mammy and ole lady Lucy and dey kept telling him dat de missus want her berries and dat dey was 'ligious wimmens anyhow and didn't practice no life o' sin and vile wickedness.

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