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Before many years had elapsed, his property was wonderfully improved; he himself was called the "Lucky Landlord," "bekase," said the people,
The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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"Got it yit!" he continued; "bekase" (he lowered his voice) "on windy nights, whenst the moon is on the wane, she is viewed kerryin 'the baby along the bredge -- kerryin' it clear over, _safe an 'sound_, like she thought she oughter done, I reckon, in that one minute, whilst she stood an' screamed an 'surveyed what she hed done.
The Phantoms Of The Foot-Bridge 1895 Mary Noailles Murfree 1886
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Son borned 1969, wee moved out of IV bekase of riots.
chezbargr riot - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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A flink dab for a freck dive and a stern poise for a swift pounce was frankily at the manual arith sure enough which was the bekase he knowed from his cradle, no bird better, why his fingures were giving him whatfor to fife with.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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Lord Lieutenant has for to send to us, sure, bekase them murtheren '
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin
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Three days sure, an 'mind yez, Ed, I don't say that bekase I work for Rafferty.
A Pirate of Parts Richard Neville
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"I think he must be a furriner," says the king, "bekase his dress is outlandish."
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Gord dun promised us, an 'which boun' ter cum bekase Gord can't lie.
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore
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Well sure enough, he wint about among his neighbors the next day, and he got an owld kettle from one, and a saucepan from another, and he took them to the tailor, and he sewed him up a suit of tin clothes like any knight arriant, and he borrowed a pot lid, and _that_ he was very partikler about, bekase it was his shield, and he wint to a friend
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It was aunly bekase he was sich a shtrang man that he's lasted so long, sir.
The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin
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