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One said, shrewdly, "Eh! nebber mind -- dey _come to_ by'm by -- _belly 'blige' em_ to work."
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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"Aw," said Dumble, who had expected nothing, and was rather embarrassed than otherwise by their generosity, "thank 'ee kindly, sirs, and young leddies; there wasn't no' casion to give us nothing; but thank 'ee very much all the same, and' nother time we'll be glad to 'blige' ee with
Kitty Trenire Mabel Quiller-Couch 1895
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Producer David Foster and singers Mary J. blige and Andrea Bocelli talk about their duet at the upcoming 52nd annual Grammy Awards show on CBS.
Blige & Bocelli to sing 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' at Grammys 2010
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Now my friend goin 'over that way, takin' a runaway back to another place, and he ready to 'blige me by takin' you a stage farther, to his cousin's plantation.
Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971
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Now my friend goin 'over that way, takin' a runaway back to another place, and he ready to 'blige me by takin' you a stage farther, to his cousin's plantation.
Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971
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Honey Tone admonished, "an '' blige me by not referrin 'no mo' to no wife whut I ain't got."
Lady Luck Hugh Wiley
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MR. STILL: -- I take this opportunity of writing a few lines to you hoping that tha may find you in good health and femaly. i am well at present and doing well at present i am now in a store and getting sixteen dollars a month at the present. i feel very much o blige to you and your family for your kindnes to me while
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I'd like ter 'blige ye, and I need money like th' devil; but I karn't leave Hallet in th 'lurch.
The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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"Ah'll 'blige him," the Wildcat mentally conceded.
Lady Luck Hugh Wiley
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Milty said he wasn't scared of me but he'd just as soon call it somebody else to 'blige me, so he rubbed out Anne's name and printed Barbara Shaw's under it.
Anne of Avonlea 1909
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