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  • Freckles stirred at his touch, and whispered as softly as the swallows under the eaves: "If you're coming this way -- tomorrow -- be pleased to step over -- and we'll repate -- the chorus softly!"

    Freckles 1904

  • Come back tomorrow, if you ain't through yet, and we'll repate the perfarmance.

    Freckles 1904

  • Don't yu never repate it -- there's not a cat don't know it already!

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • Don't yu never repate it -- there's not a cat don't know it already!

    Complete Plays of John Galsworthy John Galsworthy 1900

  • Don't yu never repate it -- there's not a cat don't know it already!

    A Bit O' Love John Galsworthy 1900

  • Come back tomorrow, if you ain't through yet, and we'll repate the perfarmance.

    Freckles Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

  • Freckles stirred at his touch, and whispered as softly as the swallows under the eaves: "If you're coming this way -- tomorrow -- be pleased to step over -- and we'll repate -- the chorus softly!"

    Freckles Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

  • "Why," says his Riv'rence, "as there is no sich passidges I make myself mighty asy about them; but if you want to know how I dispose ov them," says he, "just repate one ov them, and I'll show you how to catapomphericate it in two shakes."

    Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885

  • "Begorrah, but yees can't repate _that_ trick!" making a rush toward his antagonist, who stood calmly awaiting his onset.

    The Lost Trail Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

  • Think, for instance, how many men there are -- dreary and subdued creatures -- who dare not call their souls, if they have any, or anything else they do possess, their own; think, I repate, of those who would give nine-tenths of all they are worth simply to be in your present condition!

    The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

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  • New enterprise based on Madrid. www.repate.es

    October 10, 2010