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Examples
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Und in der own vay der rich iss full off drouble -- drunk mit eggcitement, veary mit bleasures.
North of Fifty-Three Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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"Vat ess de drouble?" he demanded, dashing open the door.
The Lost Despatch Natalie Sumner Lincoln 1908
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"Uf we don'd peen in a heap uf drouble, I know noddings!"
Frank Merriwell Down South Burt L. Standish 1905
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Ve let it stay hided in der cave undil dis drouble is all over und den it vill be easy to get it avay from der island, yoost so quiet.
The Man from Brodney's George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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"Maype you didn't haf some ghosts drouble you?" put in Hans with a grin.
The Rover Boys on the Plains The Mystery of Red Rock Ranch Edward Stratemeyer 1896
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Any excidemend, any zooden drouble mit anydings; or too much visky midout any excidemends, and he drop dead.
The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 Louis Becke 1884
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Our people on the contrary multiplied m a prodigious proportion; but did not much 'drouble themfelves about building caftles.
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Und I dink der drouble iss largely dot der modern, high-bressure cifilization makes for der abnormal, vedder a man iss a millionaire or vorks in der brewery, contentment iss a state off der mind -- und if der mind vorks mit logic it vill content find in der simple dings. "
North of Fifty-Three Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926
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Der only drouble iss der dooty of navigading der shib falls double on der segond mate und me. "
Cappy Ricks Retires 1918
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"I see some rocks aheadt und dere is a big shteamer in drouble oop to vindvard.
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