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Every word fallin 'from my lips like ice-suckles from a ruff in a
Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881
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Even so the walls they are a'fallin ', and there is even more persuasive evidence as to our common racial bonds coming from the strangest of places: Spike Lee and Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr.
Michael Conniff: Con Games: Black Like Thee With Spike, Skip, and Barack 2010
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Jus 'the other day resigned The Hammer, Mr. Tom DeLay house o' cards a 'fallin' next it's Enron's time to pay
Tellin' Lies 2006
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But it ain't murder 'cause he ain't dead, 'cause he's still a'fallin '...
Bottomless Well 1999
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There's no knowin 'what kept the poor chap from staggerin' in from his work some night an 'fallin' heart-broke in death on his lonely hearth.
Smethurstses 1995
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"We 'blieves in repentince an' fallin 'from grace, an' backslidin 'an' all that," she went on.
The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore
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Though hopelessly shot through the neck, with the bullet emerging in his left eye, he still demanded tobacco, saying, "Ah wor varry near killed befoor wi 'fallin' off a house, but ah'm noan dead yet, and ah'm noan bown to dee."
South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke
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Right'll be done, and there hain't no more sufferin 'fallin' to your share, ...
Scattergood Baines Clarence Budington Kelland 1922
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You air goin 'to have a fear o' fallin 'all your days, an' you air goin 'to be drove to places where you're like to fall.
The Boy With the U.S. Census Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918
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Looks lak in de las 'two or three years it got a way o' fallin 'back.
A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice 1906
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