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  • 'You are too emotional, tear poy,' he said; 'you are too easily vorked upon.

    Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

  • "Sure, I know," said Stankewitz, "I vorked in both them cities, and I vas every bit so hungry under Rothschild as I vas under the Kaiser."

    Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923

  • Perhaps you vill give me someting to eat den -- I haf had noffing since yesterday morning, und I haf vorked myself near to death here.

    The Jungle 1906

  • You are all vorked up -- vat you call it -- flabbergasted.

    Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain Herbert Quick 1893

  • Phony newsreels were produced for the cinema, with "swarthy indigents from Eastern Europe endorsing Sinclair-'Vell his system vorked vell in Russia, vy can't it verk here?"

    Richard Edelman - 6 A.M. 2010

  • a vacancy, Kaufmann had always been ready with his "practical man dot has vorked hiss vay."

    The Spinner's Book of Fiction Various

  • "Dear Sir -- Dis is to testify dot Hans Snyder vorked for me von week.

    More Toasts Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher

  • You vorked for de money every time -- aind't idt? "

    The Corner House Girls at School Grace Brooks Hill 1917

  • "My vriends, for vifteen years I vorked at making brooms -- me und my vife -- from fife in the morning until six at night, und I loose mine fingern trying to save enough money to puy a house that we could call our own.

    True Stories of Crime From the District Attorney's Office Arthur Cheney Train 1910

  • Dis gase, vile supliminally great stuff, is pretty vell vorked out: not? "

    Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain Herbert Quick 1893

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