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And could have bit my silly tongue out when't was said.
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Think, when't was grown to most, 't was a poor inn,
English literary criticism Various
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I was proud of the sorriest things: of jumping a brook, when't was my horse jumped it, and had jumped it better with a fly on his back than the poor worm Me; of my good looks, forgetting that God gave them me; and besides, I am no beauty, when all is done; it is all their flattery.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866 Various
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Falstaff says, with humorous point, "See now how wit may be made a Jack-a - lent, when't is upon ill employment!" [
The Duel Between France and Germany Charles Sumner 1842
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