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Examples
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"Golly, Mass 'Cap'en," called out Jake, "him 'peak de trute dat time, suah, him dead as door-nail!"
The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg
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Yeh're tellin 'th' trute, bhoy, yeh're tellin 'th' trute!
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall
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Page 194 forgetful of mine respect for trute, dese honorable gentlemens shall teal wid me as a lying pusy pody and pragmatical talebearer.
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"And one in trade; ha, I have found you out; my paper did tell the trute."
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"Der's trute in dat, Mass Corporal," answered the negro gravely with an assured shake of the head.
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De trute is, Mass Copp'ral -- de bacyn is most gone; de bottle, I 'spec' (expect) hab room 'nough for fill agen; -- I most' fear'd der's no quite 'nough I ef' in 'em, to gib you and me anoder dram; and de army's broke up, de British and Torys, day say, all gone; and nobody lef 'for we ravage' pon, and git new supplies.
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He nebber bin lub 't all; and as for 'bey, -- lor' ha 'massy' pon me, mossa, I speak noting but de trute when I tell you, -- he 'bey ebbry woman from yer to town 'fore he' bey he own dear wife.
The Wigwam and the Cabin. By the Author of "The Yemassee," "Guy Rivers," &c. Second Series 1845
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Some times dat singing doers ne so bad you really got to SIGH fuf trute!
Barbados Underground 2009
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To tell de trute, de line which you say is: 'not a quotie won't sell' I thought was 'not a pokey won't sell'. what is a quotie?
Barbados Underground 2009
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'tis th 'trute, lad! .... for here -- unless I am mistuk, comes me bould Yorkey -- an' dhrunk as 'a fiddler's ---- again.
The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police Ralph S. Kendall
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