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For that matter, talkin 'never did do much, I'm thinkin', -- exceptin 'preachin'.
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De biggest whuppin 'I ever heard tell of was when they had a trial of several slave men for sellin' liquor at da spring, durin 'preachin', on Sunday.
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"I dare say you are wearied wi 'preachin' to-day: you see you're gettin 'frail noo," said a Scotch elder, in my hearing, to a worthy clergyman.
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He had a white preacher and a white doctor on his plantation, and expected all the Negroes to go to 'preachin' on Sunday afternoon, and if any of them were sick enough to need a doctor, they had him.
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How could anybody be converted on dat kind of preachin '?
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Why, it's them that, not content with printin 'lies on paper an' preachin 'them out of pulpits, does want to be cuttin' them on the tombsteans.
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Wha 's de use o 'preachin' 'ligion to a man dat's sta'ved to def,
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John Leach, he calls hisself -- has been comin 'along an' preachin 'at the store.
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Walter Skirving could button his knee-breeks withoot bendin 'his back -- that nane could do but the king's son himsel'; an 'sic a dancer as he was afore guid an' godly Maister Cauldsowans took hand o 'him at the tent, wi' preachin 'a sermon on booin' the knee to Baal.
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The nuts rattle noisily down on its roof; sometimes during "evenin 'preachin'" -- which takes place in the afternoon -- a flying-squirrel frisks near the window; the hymns echo softly, softly, from the hazy sunlit heights across the valley.
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