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Examples
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He thought it was a keen stunt to get some gesabe to throw a stick in the resevoy so's he could paddle out after it.
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I know where he ought to be, Mr. Presley, but that ain't saying where the crazy gesabe is.
The Octopus : A story of California Frank Norris 1886
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I don't take it easy that a strappin ', healthy gesabe whose case ain't nowheres near the hopeless p'int yet steps in here with
A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West Frank Norris 1886
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Same gesabe named Palachi -- Barreto Palachi -- findin 'times dull an' the boys some off their feed, ups an 'says to hisself,
A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West Frank Norris 1886
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He thought it was a keen stunt to get some gesabe to throw a stick in the resevoy so's he could paddle out after it.
A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West Frank Norris 1886
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One is the gesabe at the oars an 'the other a party sitting in the hinder end.
A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West Frank Norris 1886
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"That all went very lovely till some gesabe opens up a placer drift on the gar side the divide, starts a rival camp, an 'names her Because.
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"They rounds up the gesabe at last at a place on the coast, but he escapes as easy as how-do-you-do.
A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West Frank Norris 1886
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"That all went very lovely till some gesabe opens up a placer drift on the far side the divide, starts a rival camp, an 'names her Because.
A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West Frank Norris 1886
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"I know where he ought to be, Mr. Presley, but that ain't saying where the crazy gesabe is."
- Frank Norris, The Octopus, bk 2, ch. 3
August 26, 2008