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Examples
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And my washin's what I call washin ', "said Deborah, emphatically;" no lost buttings and tored sheets and ragged collars.
The Opal Serpent Fergus Hume 1895
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Besides, I like a bit o 'washin' -- makes a change, I always say. '
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t 'get on with our work -- sewin' an 'cookin' an 'washin' -- mindin 'the welfare of other folks' bodies.
The Definite Object A Romance of New York Jeffery Farnol 1915
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It ruffled her that anybody should be big-feelin 'over a pore widder-woman that took in days' washin's, and had a pack o 'triflin' boys that et her out o 'house and home.
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various
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I left Beaufort, I was doin 'de Missus' washin 'and ironin'.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 Work Projects Administration
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"I've all my mornin 'washin' to do yit, only I was afraid to leave her alone."
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore
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She's takin 'washin' in fur the boarders an 'makin' money out of it.
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"Jus 'come back here whar I'se a-doin' de white folks 'washin'," she said.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration
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Y 'see, there's always meals t' be cooked an 'washin' up t 'be done, an' clo'es t 'be mended p'raps.
The Definite Object A Romance of New York Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Mendin 'holes an' washin 'clothes an' prayin 'to the Lard to
Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911
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