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I dont have any "nabers" .... but you go ahead you fool.
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"Poor Jerushy took it dreadful hard, and the nabers was a wonderin 'all the time how she could get along -- for you know Mr. Lawson, that
Marguerite Verne Rebecca Agatha Armour
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Gawd's han's; en treats mah nabers right; en lives honest.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Tennessee Narratives Work Projects Administration
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"Wal, this ere affair will be a nine-days wonder among the nabers, the folks will be so jealous that they'll not come to have a squint at the brick-nacks -- that's what you call them ere ornaments and sich things ain't it?"
Marguerite Verne Rebecca Agatha Armour
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Ef ole Brer Rabbit hadn't er got kotch up wid, de nabers 'nd er tuck' im for a h'ant, en in dem times dey bu'nt witches 'fo' you could squinch yo 'eyeballs.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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Hit didn't strike me dat dey wuz enny war gwine on, en ef I hadn't sorter miss de nabers, en seed fokes gwine outer de way fer ter ax de news, I'd a 'lowed ter myse'f dat de war wuz' way off 'mong some yuther country.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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Miss Meadows en de gals en mos 'all de nabers got win' er de fun, en w'en de day wuz sot dey 'termin' fer ter be on han '.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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He knows I'm a ghost, and my wife and her sister jest swares all the time that it was my ghost which they seed, and the nabers believed it, and that I got up outen my grave at Columbus, Kentucky, and traveled to Vicksburg jest to keep the old 'omen from marryin' that skeery chap. You see how very dead I am.
Fagots from the campfire, Louis J Dupre 1881
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He could go out en pass de time er day wid his nabers, en come back en set by de fier, en smoke his pipe, en read de newspapers same like enny man w'at got a fambly.
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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"Den Brer Rabbit call in his nabers, he did, en dey hilt a reg'lar juberlee; en ef you go ter Brer Rabbit's house right now, I dunno but w'at you'll fine Brer Wolf's hide hangin 'in de back-po'ch, en all bekaze he wuz so bizzy wid udder fo'kses doin's."
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. By Joel Chandler Harris. With Illustrations by Frederick S. Church and James H. Moser Frederick Stuart 1881
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