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Examples
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"An so there's nothink but _settin_ ', as I said before -- settin' till yer can't set no more.
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"I don't believe myself in settin 'round an' nursin 'grief," responded Sarah,
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“Well, he stayed with you till he was twenty-one, — did ye a man's service for the last five or six years; then you giv 'him what you called a settin' out, — a new suit o 'clothes, a yoke of oxen, some farmin'-tools, and a hundred dollars in money!
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"Now we're goin 'to fix the parlor up, an' settin'-room," says she.
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There is a mistiness as to whether the Pickwickians sat in the public coffee-room or had a private "settin'-room."
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The second thing Luclarion did was to clean that "settin'-room fire-place," to restore the pleasant brown color of its freestone hearth and jambs, to polish its rusty brasses till they shone like golden images of gods, and to lay an ornamental fire of chips and clean little sticks across the irons.
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Out of odd volumes in the garret, and out of "best books" taken down from the secretary in the "settin'-room," and put into their hands, with charges, of a Sunday, to keep them still, they had got these things, jumbled into strange far-off and near fantasies in their childish minds.
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I tell you it was swell, jes 'settin' there, hours an 'hours, an' doin 'nothin'.
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I tell you it was swell, jes 'settin' there, hours an 'hours, an' doin 'nothin'.
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I can see prospects o 'settin' up a hoose o 'my ain, if you'll agree to share it with me.
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