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  • My grandfather was a state senator, and he could spiel graceful an 'pleasin' till the cows come home.

    CHAPTER XV 2010

  • I almost split when I saw'm layin 'himself out sweet an' pleasin '.

    Amateur Night 2010

  • He never interested ther colt in him, never rubbed his nose and whispered inter his ear thet his heart would be broke if ther colt didn't win; so ther colt only ran ter please hisself 'nd never thought o' pleasin 'his rider.

    The Wedge of Gold C. C. Goodwin

  • Oor brother fell, nae doot, but it was lang syne, and he has walked worthy o 'the Lord unto a' pleasin 'since, an' borne a guid witness to his Maister.

    St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

  • My grandfather was a state senator, and he could spiel graceful an 'pleasin' till the cows come home.

    Chapter 15 1913

  • Well, that reporter he goes back an 'writes a piece in his paper about how it was the chance of a lifetime for any onmarried fe-male, of even disposition an' pleasin 'appearance, between the ages of twenty an' thirty-five, to marry a guaranteed Texas cowpuncher, warranted kind an 'sound an' to run easy in double harness.

    Oh, You Tex! William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • I almost split when I saw'm layin 'himself out sweet an' pleasin '.

    Amateur Night 1906

  • "Miss Maud, don't you reckon dat ef Moses had a-save 'up money enough to a-boughtened his freedom, dat'd a-been de wery sign mos' pleasin 'to Gawd dat he' uz highly fitten to be sot free widout paying?"

    The Flower of the Chapdelaines George Washington Cable 1884

  • Or is the view out theah mo 'pleasin' than the one in heah? "

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • Or is the view out theah mo 'pleasin' than the one in heah? "

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

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