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  • "So!" he said, as I stopped and stared like a goose, "you peep at me, I peep at you, and this is not bad, but see, I am not pleasanting when I say, haf you a wish for German?"

    Little Women 1921

  • "So!" he said, as I stopped and stared like a goose, "you peep at me, I peep at you, and this is not bad, but see, I am not pleasanting when I say, haf you a wish for German?"

    Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1860

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  • I expected she'd come pleasantin' round just to show off an' say afterwards she was acquainted.

    --Sarah Orne Jewett, 1896, The Country of the Pointed Firs

    January 28, 2010