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Slashers, for looking rude at Miss Fotheringay as she was on her kyar in the Phaynix; and then he described how the Captain apologised, gave a dinner at the Kildare Street, where six of them drank twinty-one bottles of claret, etc.
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For twinty years a section boss, he niver hired a tar,
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Oi does be chasing that dure for the lasth twinty minits, and dang the wan'st has I hit it fair.
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"Shure if I had a shillalah wid a sucker on the ind of it, it's milk her I wud, widout anny loss of me color, though she thritened me wid twinty horns an 'as manny hind legs."
The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives Elizabeth Strong Worthington
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"Hould your tongue, you spalpeen," said a grown man, "Jem can sing as well as twinty Simons, dat is if he could only wet his whistle."
My New Curate P.A. Sheehan
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For twinty years a section boss, he niver hired a tar --
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"Sure he can afford to lose twinty pounds, and not fale it," declared the Irish boy, sagely.
Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie Louis Arundel
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For twinty years a section boss, he worked upon the track,
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But I hae an offer to mak ye: Sae lang as it disna coom oot 'at I'm onything better nor a fisherman born, ye s' hae yer twinty poun 'i' the year, peyed ye quarterly.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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I'm cook for more nor twinty years for the Hopkinses in
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