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fat en a strip er lean
“Well, I'se got a hunk er middlin',” pursued Big Abel thoughtfully, “a strip er fat en a strip er lean des like hit oughter be—but a nigger 'ooman she gun hit ter me, en I 'low Ole Marster wouldn't tech hit wid a ten-foot pole.”
— from The Battle Ground by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

for ever and set every lazy
Why can’t Master Dean leave it to the black friars, whose vocation ’tis, and not cumber us with his sermons for ever, and set every lazy lad thinking he must needs run after them?
— from The Armourer's Prentices by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

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