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  • Let the Thquire come here after the performanth, or come here yourthelf after the performanth, and you thall find your brother, and have the whole plathe to talk to him in.

    Hard Times 2002

  • "Thith ith a thpooky old plathe," she declared with a shiver.

    The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas Janet Aldridge

  • "You d-don't underthtand -- I'm going to find my plathe in the world -- I don't belong here."

    Ptomaine Street Carolyn Wells 1902

  • Let the Thquire come here after the performanth, or come here yourthelf after the performanth, and you thall find your brother, and have the whole plathe to talk to him in.

    Hard Times 1876

  • It'll be a dark night; I've got a horthe that'll do anything but thpeak; I've got a pony that'll go fifteen mile an hour with Childerth driving of him; I've got a dog that'll keep a man to one plathe four-and-twenty hourth.

    Hard Times 1876

  • I'd have thent you a Tharp'th rifle in plathe of that muthle loader you carry, or thomething thenthible.

    In the Carquinez Woods Bret Harte 1869

  • It'll be a dark night; I've got a horthe that'll do anything but thpeak; I've got a pony that'll go fifteen mile an hour with Childerth driving of him; I've got a dog that'll keep a man to one plathe four-and-twenty hourth.

    Hard Times 1868

  • It'll be a dark night; I've got a horthe that'll do anything but thpeak; I've got a pony that'll go fifteen mile an hour with Childerth driving of him; I've got a dog that'll keep a man to one plathe four-and-twenty hourth.

    Hard Times Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1868

  • Let the Thquire come here after the performanth, or come here yourthelf after the performanth, and you thall find your brother, and have the whole plathe to talk to him in.

    Hard Times Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1868

  • Let the Thquire come here after the performanth, or come here yourthelf after the performanth, and you thall find your brother, and have the whole plathe to talk to him in.

    Hard Times 1868

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