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carry your canoe and duffel
There are two kinds of "packs"—the pack that you carry day after day on a long hike, and the pack that you carry when on a canoe trip and you are compelled to leave the water and carry your canoe and duffel overland around some bad
— from The Book of Camp-Lore and Woodcraft by Daniel Carter Beard

count your cheekins afore dey
,” returned the negro earnestly, “don’t you count your cheekins afore dey’s hatched!
— from The Middy and the Moors: An Algerine Story by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

call you child and do
I like the older men who give you fatherly looks, and call you child, and do not press your hand so tight.
— from A Little Girl in Old Detroit by Amanda M. Douglas

cheating your countrymen and deceiving
“Heave this trumpery overboard, and you, Senhores priests, may be thankful that you have been deprived of the means of cheating your countrymen and deceiving the ignorant natives by your abominable impostures.”
— from Villegagnon: A Tale of the Huguenot Persecution by William Henry Giles Kingston

Can you climb asked Don
“Can you climb?” asked Don doubtfully.
— from For the Honor of the School: A Story of School Life and Interscholastic Sport by Ralph Henry Barbour

Can you come and dine
"Can you come and dine with me to-morrow?"
— from The Chariot of the Flesh by Hedley Peek

change your clothes and don
Go home this moment, sir, and change your clothes; and don't you presume to come into the presence of the nurse you have offended, till there's not a wet thread about you.
— from Foul Play by Dion Boucicault

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