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It'd just have to come, onc't the buildin 'was there.
Chapter 44 2010
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And onc't I spoke to mother about it, and told her ef I thought the feller wanted to marry Marthy I'd jest stop his comin 'right then and there.
Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels
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"If I could jes 'git a rise out o' him onc't ----"
Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long
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"This was a right good farm, onc't," said Aunt 'Mira.
Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long
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There was some talk of him an '' Rill Scattergood bein 'sweet on each other onc't; but that was twenty year ago, I do b'lieve.
Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long
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"No, ma'am, but I had some trouble onc't with a white uncle."
The New Pun Book Thomas A. Brown
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Thar'd be siveral less massycrees a week, an 'ye wouldn't see a rufyan onc't a month.
Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler
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` ` I thought a sight of you onc't, Sally, '' said he.
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I'm 'most grown-up, and I don't believe in Santy Claus, and onc't I taught the infant class at St. Chrysostom's Sunday-school when the teacher wasn't there; anyway, I and Miss Bessie did, and I asked them
The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918
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"Why, I could handle both of ye; come on, the two of ye to onc't!" the hunter cried.
Far Past the Frontier W. H. [Illustrator] Fry 1913
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