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  • "Then don't look as if you was seein 'suthin' -- you give me the creeps," returned Uncle Billy a little petulantly.

    Stories in Light and Shadow Bret Harte 1869

  • She grinned hugely and transferred her hand from my wrist to my britches "... unless you can think o 'suthin' better to do fust ... oh, my, Ah should think you can!"

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • We had to go back home where I couldn't run barefoot any more, and kids made fun of my 'suthin' accent.

    Clancy Sigal: My Mom Jennie 2008

  • She grinned hugely and transferred her hand from my wrist to my britches "... unless you can think o 'suthin' better to do fust ... oh, my, Ah should think you can!"

    Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995

  • I don 'done nuthin' Massa Tom -- but she git Hector to whup me, en oh I's hurtin ', hurtin' suthin 'awful, massa.

    Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

  • I don 'done nuthin' Massa Tom -- but she git Hector to whup me, en oh I's hurtin ', hurtin' suthin 'awful, massa.

    Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

  • "I'se gwine t 'look out fo' suthin 't' shoot after dis," announced

    The Young Treasure Hunter or, Fred Stanley's Trip to Alaska Frank V. Webster

  • "YEH may gas about torpedoes an '' fernal machines an 'such like, but yeh can't learn me nothin'; onct I had t 'do wi' suthin 'o' th 'sort that turned th' heads o 'a dozen men from black ter white in 'bout ten minutes," and the ancient mariner looked at me with careful impressiveness.

    Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers Various

  • I strove to think o 'suthin' to say, all the time he was here, but I swow I couldn't think o 'nothin'.

    Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 Various

  • "Can't anybody go in -- if it's an exhibit -- by payin 'suthin'?"

    Uncle William: the man who was shif'less Jennette Barbour Perry Lee 1905

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