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An ', slid o' wastin 'pottage, he'd ha' eat it up an 'owed it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various
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I am sick o 'wastin' leather on these gutty pavin'-stones,
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I am sick o 'wastin' leather on these gutty pavin'-stones,
Poems Teachers Ask For Selected by readers of "Normal Instructor-Primary Plans" Various
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I am sick o 'wastin' leather on these gritty pavin'-stones,
A Book of Old Ballads — Complete Beverley Nichols 1941
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"And yo 'wastin' of yo 'time indoors!" mourned the dark Southerner.
The Gray Dawn Stewart Edward White 1909
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But we're kind of wastin 'time, ain't we, Mr. Fosdick?
The Portygee Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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"What's the use o 'wastin' time on Catalina when that letter tells us right where to go?" demanded Hill.
Owen Clancy's Happy Trail or, The Motor Wizard in California Burt L. Standish 1905
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Same as we should be, 'stead o' wastin 'hot air around here.
The Forfeit Ridgwell Cullum 1905
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I am sick o 'wastin' leather on these gritty pavin'-stones,
Barrack Room Ballads Rudyard Kipling 1900
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I am sick o 'wastin' leather on these gritty pavin'-stones,
Departmental Ditties & Barrack Room Ballads Rudyard Kipling 1900
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