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"I think," he announced at last, "as I shouldn't do nothin 'partic'lar."

The Daughters of Danaus Mona Caird

No, I put down the maker of that special an 'partic'lar doll ez a greater idolitor than them thet, for the want o' knowin 'better, stick a few extry members on a clay statute an' pray to it in faith.

In Simpkinsville : character tales, 1897

"It ain't nothin 'partic'ler, only a bit o' bastin 'that I was doin'."

The Uncalled A Novel Paul Laurence Dunbar 1889

If I'm driven to counsel a gent concernin 'poker it would be to never play with strangers; an' partic'lar to never spec'late with a gent who sneezes a lot, or turns his head an 'talks of draughts of cold air invading' the place, or says his foot's asleep an 'gets up to stampede about the room after a hand is dealt an' prior to the same bein 'played.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

I looks for trouble that night; an 'partic'lar I pegs out Jerry plenty deep and strong.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

The Saucy Willow's fam'ly is goin 'about lookin' partic'lar harmless an 'innocent; but they're coony enough to be in camp that day.

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

Aside from him bein 'a profound sharp on drugs, an' partic'lar cowboy drugs, he's plenty learned in a gen'ral way, an 'knows where every kyard lays in nacher's deck, from them star-flecked heavens above to the earth beneath, an' -- as Scripter puts it -- to the

Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

"I couldn't heer nothin 'partic'lar, but I judged as 'twas summat about Sunday and the fire."

Tom Brown at Oxford Thomas Hughes 1859

'lowed that the weather signs didn't mean nothin' partic'lar, and wouldn't so much as take in the skysails -- because, d'ye see, we was racin 'home with another ship, and Mister Mate reckoned he wasn't goin' to be scared into shortenin 'down just because the weather looked a bit unusual.

Turned Adrift Harry Collingwood 1886

a youngster's luck in it; for ye were no 'partic'lar in the aim ye took.

Pathfinder; or, the inland sea James Fenimore Cooper 1820