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  • The city feller transferred the title ta Bartholemew, an' after a few minutes I had the title in another name usin' a few shell companies ta hide the transactions.

    Down on the Pharm Hugh Barlow 2011

  • If ye're a gentleman or lady o' fortune yerself — or just want t' talk like one — ye c'n set Pirate as yer preferred lingo usin' th' Likes an' Dislikes page, or cast yer deadlights on an example.

    Google in one more language 2008

  • Master of Highleigh that was, back when I was no more bigger than you, reckoned to clean out the well, maybe use it for summat, but after the bones was found, he gave up on the notion of usin 'it for anything.

    The Wizard Of London Lackey, Mercedes 2005

  • But that comes o 'usin' what Parson Hyde calls figgurs, I s'pose.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

  • Tired o 'usin' 'noder man's eyes,' noder man's han's.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various

  • Dad says there ain't any cut an 'dried rules for dog racin' beyond knowin 'your dogs, an' usin 'common sense.

    Baldy of Nome Esther Birdsall Darling

  • "Oh, by keepin 'out of a cotton mill an' usin 'my eye," said Archie

    The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

  • "But wasn't it a bit scurvy trick ye played me, acceptin 'my money an' usin 'it to double-cross me?"

    The Challenge of the North 1921

  • I had the advantage o 'usin' language, an 'I reckon we was about equal scared.

    Dennison Grant: a Novel of To-day Robert J. C. Stead 1919

  • "Don't go for to be too sartin, now; ye see I've got a tidy voice, I have, which I aren't noways afeared o 'usin'!"

    The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915

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