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  • I'm jes 'mentionin' this to yo 'to show yo' that thar's reason in my advisin 'yo' to keep clar o 'this district.

    The Boy With the U.S. Census Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

  • September 5, 2008 at 6:40 am ohai judson, thanx fur mentionin richard brautigan werkz yestiddy- brot bak gud memories!

    butz i wanted karot kaek… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • 'To not mentionin' the fact that you destroyed a few million quid's worth of power station? '

    A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2001

  • "If I was ter -- er -- speed things up a bit, would yeh mind not mentionin 'it at Hogwarts?"

    Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Rowling, J. K. 1997

  • Evidently it didn't seem worth mentionin 'to the earlier Walls, on his inspection tour.

    There Will Be Time Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1972

  • Policy'll need to be modified on both sides before we can cooperate worth mentionin ', let alone think about joint commissions.

    Ensign Flandry Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1966

  • He don't give no medicine worth mentionin ', he keeps his hoss so fat he can't trot, and he ain't got no wife to mend his clothes.

    A Strange Discovery Charles Romyn Dake

  • Of the merits of that Essy it doesn't becum me to speak, but I may be excoos'd for mentionin that the Institoot parsed a resolution that "whether we look upon the length of this Essy, or the manner in which it is written, we feel that we will not express any opinion of it, and we hope it will be read in other towns."

    Humorous Masterpieces from American Literature Various

  • "Jest as you say, the good done to your fellow-creturs not bein 'worth mentionin'" said Cap'n 'Kiah, with a grave simplicity that disarmed suspicion.

    Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 Various

  • When it was all over he was called to the admiral's cabin aboard the cruiser and congratulated for being so brave and so ever-ready to lead in any dangerous undertaking; but Bill Hickson simply blushed and said he hadn't done "anything worth mentionin '."

    The Adventures of a Boy Reporter Harry Steele Morrison

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