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  • I do believe that transgenderism is an umbrella word.

    Take it to the bridge 2008

  • I do believe that transgenderism is an umbrella word.

    Take it to the bridge 2008

  • Brer Bull-Frog wuz mighty certain an 'sho dat Brer Rabbit wuz skeer'd ez he kin be, an' inter de holler he went, widout so much ez takin 'de trouble ter shet up his umbrell.

    Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes

  • And so when we made up our minds to attend to it I almost instinctively put on my best alpacky dress (London brown) and I also run a new ribbin into my braize veil and tied it round my bunnet so it would hang in graceful folds adown the left side of my frame, I also put on my black mitts and my mantilly with tabs; of course I carried my faithful umbrell.

    Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881

  • The tent riz up like a big white umbrell, or like great broodin 'wings overhead, leavin' the sides free for the soft air to enter.

    Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881

  • But tacklin 'hard jobs as I always tackle 'em, I sot down calm in front of him with my umbrell on my lap and told him all of Serepta's errents, and how I had brought 'em from Jonesville on my tower.

    Samantha on the Woman Question Marietta Holley 1881

  • Suffice it to say the next mornin 'the risin' sun gilded my brown straw bunnet and umbrell as I descended from the car at the Grand Central.

    Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881

  • But thank Heaven, my good green braize veil tied round it with strong lutestring ribbon, held it on, and I see I still had holt of my trusty cotton umbrell, though the wind had blowed it open, but I shet it and grasped it firmly, thinkin 'it wuz my only protector and safeguard now Josiah wuz lost, and I hastened away from that crazy spot.

    Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881

  • Hisen betokened the most intense madness, and I spoze that in my agitation I might have jabbed him some with my umbrell, and I hastened away, tromplin 'as I did so in my haste on various heads and arms, and follered by loud busts of what I most know wuz blood curdlin' profanity, though not

    Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881

  • But there wuzn't nothin 'but some children's heads and feet stickin' about, and I hastened to that nose and poked the sand from it with my umbrell cryin ':

    Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881

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