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Examples
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Yes, and they call em ‘the block’ but it's mixtry now [I believe this means it's a mixed street now]
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She run ter her cabin, en got her goopher mixtry, en den foller de track er de timber waggin ter de saw-mill.
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De nex 'time Sandy wuz turnt back he had a big skyar on his lef' leg, des lack it be'n skunt; en it tuk Tenie nigh 'bout all night fer ter fix a mixtry ter kyo it up.
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Since Uncle Pomp let me put that mixtry of nice mud and brick dust on his shoe he don't suffer with his frost-bit heel no more.
Phyllis Maria Thompson Daviess 1898
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She run ter her cabin, en got her goopher mixtry, en den foller de track er de timber waggin ter de saw-mill.
Po' Sandy 1888
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De nex 'time Sandy wuz turnt back he had a big skyar on his lef' leg, des lack it be'n skunt; en it tuk Tenie nigh 'bout all night fer ter fix a mixtry ter kyo it up.
Po' Sandy 1888
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Den Tenie 'membered de tree didn' hab no years, en she wuz gittin 'ready fer ter wuk her goopher mixtry so ez ter turn Sandy back, w'en de mill-hands kotch holt er her en tied her arms wid a rope, en fasten' her to one er de posts in de saw-mill; en den dey started de saw up ag'in, en cut de log up inter bo'ds en scantlin's right befo 'her eyes.
Po' Sandy 1888
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"Nuthin 'needed in that mixtry of horseflesh an' human carcass an 'splintered wood and leather," argued Clenk.
The Ordeal A Mountain Romance of Tennessee Mary Noailles Murfree 1886
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He's a pop'lar man among the ladies, is the Colonel, but a mixtry of whiskey an 'opium is apt to spile his manners.
In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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Den dat Yankee made de niggers fix up a mixtry er lime en ashes en manyo, en po 'it roun' de roots er de grapevimes.
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