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story y si tal era por
Así le pinta la historia, So says the story y si tal era, por cierto and if he was such, certainly que obró cuerdamente el muerto the dead man behaved wisely para ganarse la gloria.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

so you see these ere Portland
She'll be [Pg 37] down in a minute, she said; she thought she'd have time afore supper to get to the bottom of the big chist, and see if that 'ere vest pattern ain't there, and them sticks o' twist for the button-holes, 'cause Roxy she says she never see nothin' so rotten as that 'ere twist we've been a-workin' with, that Mis' Pennel got over to Portland; it's a clear cheat, and Mis' Pennel she give more'n half a cent a stick more for 't than what Roxy got for her up to Brunswick; so you see these 'ere Portland stores charge up, and their things want lookin' after."
— from The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine by Harriet Beecher Stowe


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