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  • Professor YALE STROM (New York University): I guess the first to put it down to notation -- so that often's the one who often claims that there's a guy -- you know, Nikemos Patrenous (ph).

    'Misirlou,' from Klezmer to Surf Guitar 2006

  • About an hour and 2 "PG, I love to see you, I forget how much fun you are, I've got to see you more often's" later, my roommate T. and I decided to call it quits also.

    partygirl Diary Entry partygirl 2001

  • Ye must a thought I was hard an unfeelin, Reub, dear, often's the time, but I didn't know, I didn't know.

    The Duke of Stockbridge Edward Bellamy 1874

  • 'Nor I can't pen his dukkerin' nuther, though often's the time I've tried it. '

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

  • As for me, he was ever my white-headed boy: often's the time, when I would call in at his father's, where I was always made welcome, he would slip down to me in the kitchen, and, love to sit on my knee whilst I told him stories of the family and the blood from which he was sprung, and how he might look forward, if the then present man should die without childer, to being at the head of the

    Castle Rackrent Maria Edgeworth 1808

  • As for me, he was ever my white-headed boy: often's the time when I would call in at his father's, where I was always made welcome; he would slip down to me in the kitchen, and love to sit on my knee, whilst I told him stories of the family, and the blood from which he was sprung, and how he might look forward, if the _then_ present man should die without childer, to being at the head of the Castle Rackrent estate.

    Tales and Novels — Volume 04 Maria Edgeworth 1808

  • As for me, he was ever my white-headed boy 7 – often's the time when I would call in at his father's, where I was always made welcome, he would slip down to me in the kitchen, and love to sit on my knee whilst I told him stories of the family and the blood from which he was sprung, and how he might look forward, if the then present man should die without childer, to being at the head of the Castle Rackrent estate.

    Castle Rackrent: An Hibernian Tale 1800

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