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Examples

  • Kill me, and Uncle Sam is liable to ask mighty loud whyfor; not because I'm such

    Bucky O'Connor William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • I reckon you've got an explanation handy when Uncle Sam comes asking whyfor you murdered an American citizen. "

    Steve Yeager William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • But whyfor do they let a sick man like you travel all by his lone? "

    Bucky O'Connor William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • I'm a buzzard haid, but me I kinder got to millin 'it over and in respect to these here local improvements, as you might say, I'm doggoned if I _sabe_ the whyfor. "

    The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North William MacLeod Raine 1912

  • "I kaint see whyfor, kase he lib on all sort er fish, s'long's dey ain't too big.

    The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales Frank T. Bullen 1886

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