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Just tring to clear things up for you, not "crackin '" on you.
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Just tring to clear things up for you, not "crackin '" on you.
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I heerd noises sometimes, -- nothin 'like what come afterwards, -- but sort o' crackin 'an' snappin ', sich as you hear in new furnitur', an 'it seemed like somebody was in the room; but I couldn't find nothin'.
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Ever 'night he used to set on the floor an' fool with them things, a-fittin ''em here an' crackin ''em off there, but I never paid no' tention to him.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906
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Ever 'night he used to set on the floor an' fool with them things, a-fittin ''em here an' crackin ''em off there, but I never paid no' tention to him.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, by Alice Caldwell Hegan. 1902
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Orth'ris began rowlin 'his eyes an' crackin 'his fingers an' dancin 'a step-dance for to impress the Headman.
Soldier Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Orth'ris began rowlin 'his eyes an' crackin 'his fingers an' dancin 'a step-dance for to impress the
Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900
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At-risk teens I've surveyed indicated that the opportunity to have drum lines, open mikes, poetry slams, teen arcades, etc., would be "crackin '."
JSOnline.com 2010
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Old Sophy would say, -- "don 'you hear th' crackin '' n 'th' snappin 'up in' Th 'Mountain,' n 'th' rollin 'o' th 'big stones?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861 Various
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I guess goin 'to an office every day is one thing an' crackin 'a millionaire's crib's another. "
The Definite Object A Romance of New York Jeffery Farnol 1915
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