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  • It kinda erupted spontay… Spoonerism… Spock… All of a suddenlike.

    Mak it like dis. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • But I hadn't time to sample it, for suddenlike I woke:

    Rhymes of a Red Cross Man 1916

  • He used up a whole magazine on Somers an 'then, suddenlike, he quit.

    To the Last Man Zane Grey 1905

  • Well, wot should 'appen but' is hoss, a green one, must bolt suddenlike, scairt by one of the balloons that 'it' im on the nose.

    The Rose in the Ring George Barr McCutcheon 1897

  • "Has Tom Kimberly been here lately?" the old man ast me, real suddenlike, right soon after that, though I hadn't said nothing to him.

    The Man Next Door Emerson Hough 1890

  • Hettie has, too; if she hain't, I'll try to show her that -- I mean -- but I reckon I'd better trot over to the spring-house and kinder lead your Ma up to it, and not have it sprung too suddenlike.

    Dixie Hart 1888

  • “Just that … him fallin’ over dead was so suddenlike and all.”

    This Calder Range Janet Dailey 1982

  • “Just that … him fallin’ over dead was so suddenlike and all.”

    This Calder Range Janet Dailey 1982

  • George and Bob walked all the way 'ome arter supper without saying a word, but arter they got to their room George took a side-look at Bob, and then he ses, suddenlike, "Look' ere!

    Captains All and Others 1903

  • George and Bob walked all the way 'ome arter supper without saying a word, but arter they got to their room George took a side-look at Bob, and then he ses, suddenlike, "Look' ere!

    Bob's Redemption Captains All, Book 5. 1903

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