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Examples
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"Do move up closer; I'm a little hard o 'hearin' -- jist a mite," said
Five Little Peppers and their Friends Margaret Sidney 1884
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"No, I don't recall hearin 'that Hank's stock is sufferin' any," the cowboy admitted.
The Boy Ranchers in Camp or The Water Fight at Diamond X Willard F. Baker
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"Ye've not had th 'pleasure o' hearin 'me sing in battle," he replied.
Addicts Tree Riesener 2010
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It's ringing roun 'ma brain while ma man's grinnin' at me over the pipe no 'hearin' a thing.
High Society Elton, Ben 2002
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"Polly," he says, "what is it, my dear?" an 'hearin' her ask him such a question, turned him almost sick with joy an 'pain together.
Smethurstses 1995
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He does do it pretty loud when he's gettin 'up steam; you see, he don't know how loud he does it, because he's deaf o' hearin '.
Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings Annie Hamilton Donnell
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I remember somethin 'of tearin' through the lonely beach an 'blasted woods, of seein' more faces in the trees, an 'hearin' quick footsteps on my track, but I remember nauthin 'more.
Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall
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We go the patriarkle here out o 'all sight an' hearin ',
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various
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Oh, I'm sick o 'hearin' how clever everybody else is -- I want to tell 'em how clever
Night Must Fall : a Play in Three Acts Emlyn Williams 1946
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What's more, your eyesight an 'hearin' is as good as mine.
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