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Examples
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"There be'n't many neighbors hereabout, be there?" she ventured presently, toying with her broncho's mane.
The Way of the Wind Zoe Anderson Norris
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"You be'n't much used to the prairie, I reckon?" observed the American who had spoken before.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various
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"I know there _be'n't_," said the persevering Solomon.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various
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"When they be'n't too poor to have time to sing," said grandfather James.
Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school Thomas Hardy 1884
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"I be'n't much for tea, this time o 'day," he said, but stayed.
Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school Thomas Hardy 1884
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"They're a-gittin 'out the boats, sir," remarked John Buzzby, who, unable to restrain himself any longer, had crept upon deck at the risk of another reprimand; "and, if my eyes be'n't deceiving me, there's a sail on the horizon to wind'ard -- leastways, the direction which _wos_ wind'ard afore it fell calm."
The World of Ice 1859
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"Because it makes me say that you've come to ask what ye be'n't likely to have.
Under the Greenwood Tree, or, the Mellstock quire; a rural painting of the Dutch school Thomas Hardy 1884
minerva commented on the word be'n't
I am sorry, madam, and please you, to find you be'n't well.
Country lad (as quoted by Lovelace), Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
December 17, 2007