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  • o 'thanksgivin' to the skies, for weel she kenned that the men wouldna come withoot their lord.

    Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls Margaret Bruce Clarke

  • Give me a minute to powder my nose and murmur a prayer of thanksgivin ', and then I'll set the festive board and show you how we used to scramble eggs in Shaftesbury

    Who Cares? a story of adolescence Cosmo Hamilton 1910

  • So's ter sing a big thanksgivin 'fer the comin' harvest-time;

    Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • They don't want to be laid in good old mother earth, which is the warm forcin 'place o' the Lord for raisin 'up' uman souls as He raises up the blossoms in spring, an 'all other things which do give Him grateful praise an' thanksgivin '!

    The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889

  • Doctor, I do believe she wad gang an 'be brunt hersel' wi 'a great thanksgivin', gin it wad lat ony puir crater oot o ''t -- no to say my father.

    Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

  • I've heerd the ship's chaplain go through 'em both, -- ay, scores o 'times; but the one as we want now be the thanksgivin'; an 'I know little

    The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Mayne Reid 1850

  • The first be called a prayer, -- the t'other be a thanksgivin '.

    The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Mayne Reid 1850

  • Give me strength, then, to bow to thy will, and to receive with faith and thanksgivin 'whatever you choose to bestow upon me!

    Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

  • Witch is all in praise and onnur of the glory and peace to come, thanksgivin and gladness; umbelly beggin leave to super scribe me self,

    Anna St. Ives Thomas Holcroft 1777

  • G is just so funny .... red: i was finally able to get ahold of a dvd copy of "song of the south" on a recent family vacation during thanksgivin. my ...

    SplicedFeed 2010

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