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  • I ain't seen one footprint ... though I know she's bound to come down once't in a while.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • The wind was blowin 'the smoke back into the woods so there wasn't even any cover you usually got once't the smoke got heavy.

    Prayers To Broken Stones Simmons, Dan 1990

  • His big brain had had him doing this at least once't month for the past three years: hiring strangers to tie him up and strangle him just a little bit.

    Galapagos Vonnegut, Kurt 1985

  • Old Ella Coffin that lives on Narrer P'int over yonder ain't been to the main but once't in fifteen years.

    Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper

  • But ez I wuz a-sayin ', he tuk de ham ober ter Aun' Peggy's; en Aun 'Peggy tole' im dat w'en Mars Dugal 'begin ter prume de grapevimes, he mus' go en take 'n scrape off de sap whar it ooze out'n de cut een's er de vimes, en' n'int his ball head wid it; en ef he do dat once't a year de goopher wouldn 'wuk agin' im long ez he done it.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

  • Am'zon was tellin 'me once't about what he and two others went through with after the _Posy Lass, _ out o' Bangor, was smashed up in a big blow off Hat'ras.

    Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper

  • How can anybody eat seventy-five cents worth of victuals to once't?

    The Mission of Janice Day Helen Beecher Long

  • Mars Dugal 'sot spring guns en steel traps, en he en de oberseah sot up nights once't er twice't, tel one night Mars Dugal' -- he 'uz a monst'us keerless man -- got his leg shot full er cow-peas.

    Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various

  • Paulmouth once't about a feller and a girl lost in the woods o 'Borneo.

    Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper James A. Cooper

  • "I know some Irish songs -- and I could hammer brass once't."

    Tales of the Jazz Age 1918

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