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But I would be meeting the girl here and there about the country, in the glen, in the town, as well as here in this very parlour where I had to sit and look indifferent, though -- though my heart stounded, and I never met her but
Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Neil Munro
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Now I further saw that betwixt them and the Gate was a River, but there was no Bridge to go over; the River was very deep: at the sight therefore of this River the Pilgrims were much stounded; but the men that went with them said, You must go through, or you cannot come at the Gate.
The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites Eva March Tappan 1892
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_ Why, ah! tother da she fared stounded: she pluck'd the pur from the back-stock, and copped it agin the balk of the douw-pollar, and barnt it; and then she hulled [it] at the thackster, and hart his weeson, and huckle-bone.
English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day 1873
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"Yes, sir! and the old ladies in charge of Black Hall is more 'stounded than you are, sir; being' stounded to that degree that they sleep with the dogs in the room; long of 'em."
Cruel As The Grave Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859
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