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Examples

  • "And now, if you've more beds, maybe Pat had better make 'em before the dust of the swapin 'is on him."

    The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger

  • I was swapin 'the aist walk, but I know she was inside the window an' I know she heard.

    Her father`s daughter 1921

  • I was swapin 'the aist walk, but I know she was inside the window an' I know she heard.

    Her Father's Daughter Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

  • She's that lazy she goes ter slape swapin 'the flure.

    Keith of the Border Randall Parrish 1890

  • It's my belafe you've got a gift for swapin ', "she said.

    The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger

  • I says, 'A vigorous swapin 'and no light brushin' except by a lady loike yoursilf as hasn't got strength. '"

    The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger

  • "When these two fine people before you set up their hearthstone, a-swapin 'it I'll be, and carin' for their youngsters; but, Judge, I would like a bit of the shamrock.

    Her father`s daughter 1921

  • I waz just a-finishin 'me warrak of swapin' the chimneys, wen one ov the ould gintleman came up an 'poked me in the nose with a sthick, and the other ould gintleman knocked me over and sthole me bag, while the soger hild me down till the other gintleman sat on me -- it's among a lot of murtherin' thaves I've got entoirely, savin 'yer presince, sor. "

    The Wallypug in London Alan Wright 1910

  • Or how did ye get back here and into this fix, sor, and me swapin 'the halls and polishin' the brasses fernist the front dure iv'ry minute since ye wint out? "

    The Brass Bowl Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • I ginerally do the swapin ', and me wife or Kittie, me daughter, do the winder clanin' an 'the dustin'. "

    The Rover Boys in Business Or, The search for the missing bonds Edward Stratemeyer 1896

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