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While for yous, Jasminia Aruna and all your likers, affinitatively must it be by you elected if Monogynes his is or hers Diander, the tubous, limbersome and nectarial.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Mistah Tukkey, you done praise dese yer heap mo'n w'at dey is wuf, 'but all de same he wuz might'ly please', fer dar's nuttin 'lak a li'l bit er flatt'ry fer ilin' up de j'ints an 'mekin' folks limbersome in der feelin's.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VII. (of X.) Various 1887
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My sta'rcase is a mighty limbersome one, en I'll des let it down ter you. '
Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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My sta'rcase is a mighty limbersome one, en I'll des let it down ter you. '
Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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"W'en dey git in dar, de fus 'sight dey see wuz ole Brer Rabbit stannin' up by de dram-bottle mixin 'up a toddy, en he wa'n't so stiff-kneed n'er, kase he sorter swage fum side ter side, en he look lak he mighty limbersome, w'ich, goodness knows, a man bleedz ter be limbersome w'en he drink dat kinder licker w'at Brer Fox perwide fer dem creeturs.
Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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"W'en dey git in dar, de fus 'sight dey see wuz ole Brer Rabbit stannin' up by de dram-bottle mixin 'up a toddy, en he wa'n't so stiff-kneed n'er, kase he sorter swage fum side ter side, en he look lak he mighty limbersome, w'ich, goodness knows, a man bleedz ter be limbersome w'en he drink dat kinder licker w'at Brer Fox perwide fer dem creeturs.
Nights With Uncle Remus Joel Chandler Harris 1878
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