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She heerd herself a – crying out, like as if it was another person; and cut herself on them sharp – pinted stones and rocks, and felt it no more than if she had been rock herself.
David Copperfield 2007
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I took her and tried to cumft her: I pinted out the diffrents of our sitawashns; igsplained to her that proppaty has its jewties as well as its previletches, and that MY juty clearly was to marry into a noble famly.
The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006
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Fust, he lookt towards the carridge, and pinted to it with his maimed arm; then he raised the other, AND STRUCK THE
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I took her and tried to cumft her: I pinted out the diffrents of our sitawashns; igsplained to her that proppaty has its jewties as well as its previletches, and that MY juty clearly was to marry into a noble famly.
Burlesques 2006
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I then pinted majestickly — to what do you think? — to my PLUSH TITES! those sellabrated inigspressables which have rendered me famous in Yourope.
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‘Though, by-the-bye, I suppose it was one of that family that pinted me out?’
Our Mutual Friend 2004
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'Come ahead on de outside -- now we's pinted for Sent Louis, en I's outer de woods en ain't got to drown myself at all.'
Pudd'nhead Wilson 1955
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The captain had been agin him all along on account of his too much sperit, and that capterin 'o' the whale finished up the business, and pinted his fate.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various
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Marster 'pinted a cullud boy to git de slaves up 'fore day, and dey wukked f'um sunup to sundown.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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I'se been pinted a committee to tell you dey hes made a good hot fire in de back room down stairs fer you.
Watch Yourself Go By Ben W. [Illustrator] Warden
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