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Undoubtly, a few will be consumpted when my back is turned, but most go to the freezer.
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Undoubtly, a few will be consumpted when my back is turned, but most go to the freezer.
Pichet Ong's Banana Cake Mandy 2008
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On a purely practical note, anything that cuts into quantity of ethanol consumpted by both young men and women is going to help also.
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I wouldn't give a poor consumpted cripple crab a crutch to cross the
The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts Langston Hughes 1934
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There was another sister -- consumpted -- she should have been a hair, but she died.
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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Susan was beginnin 'to look mighty peaked an' consumpted, even in this picture.
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An 'right on top o' that, I come in lookin 'sort o' puny an 'peaked, an' I happened to choke on a muskitty jest ez I come in, an 'she declared she wasn't a-goin' to have a consumpted man sick on her hands an 'a clo'es-destroyin' steer at the same time.
Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches Ruth McEnery Stuart 1886
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"You saddle that horse this minit an 'fetch that consumpted boy home."
Southern Lights and Shadows William Dean Howells 1878
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"He cert'n'y is weaker'n stump-water," she murmured, as she turned her horse's head; "but he's sickly an 'consumpted, an' he's jest about the age my Bud would of been if he'd lived."
Southern Lights and Shadows William Dean Howells 1878
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No. The person'll be poisoned like it would be having consumpted a glass of gasoline.
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