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  • 'Gintlemen,' he says, 'I find that th' wurruk ye've been accustomed to doin ',' he says, 'is calc'lated f'r to disthroy th' morality an 'debase th' home life iv Topeka, not to mintion th 'surroundin' methrolopuses iv Valencia, Wanamaker, Sugar

    Mr. Dooley's Philosophy Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • Ruin perfectly good coffee beans by surroundin' 'em with chocolate.....

    I Heart Crackheads Gordie 2009

  • Edmond Fitzgerald . these coins were stained wid oil and dered was an air ob mystery surroundin dem . the velvet bab wich contained des e coins said ….

    Monorail Cat derails after - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Its pretty obvious that dumbledore wud hv anyway died wid all the death eaters surroundin him .. so think snape wen he killed dumbledore wil make him closer to lord voldemort and there by can help harry by acting as a spy .. lets see..

    Just Finished Reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005

  • As soon as they touched the ground, they bounded upward again, like rubber balls the children throw upon the floor, but each bound was less violent than the one preceding it, until finally within the streets of the city and upon all the fields surroundin g it lay the thousands of Roly-Rogues that had fallen from the mountain peak.

    Queen Zixi of Ix Baum, L. Frank 1971

  • An 'it sounds like taps surroundin', Sargent Flynn

    Gerry Owens (Sargent Flynn) 1959

  • An 'it sounds like taps surroundin', Sargent Flynn

    Gerry Owens (Sargent Flynn) 1959

  • Thar wuzn't no possible way fer 'em ter git away unseen, with ther water in front, them high cliffs surroundin ''em on three sides, an' only a small plot

    Jack Wright and His Electric Stage; or, Leagued Against the James Boys

  • We love to live for the beauty o 'the things surroundin' us, an 'the joy we take in bein' among 'em.

    The Song of the Cardinal 1915

  • The face surroundin 'it was stretched wide and welcome, and the minute this here new-comer reco'nized me, he drawed back his upper lip and pointed proudly to his ornament, then he dug up his lookin'-glass and his polishin'-rag and begun to dust it off.

    Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

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