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  • "Stou thet now -- d'ye want a kepple er black eyes or a pench on the nowze?"

    The Christian A Story Hall Caine 1892

  • I ain't forgot my father an 'my mother an' what a happy kepple they were.

    The Girl of the Golden West David Belasco 1892

  • 'Bill,' sez you, 'might you hev a kepple o' hundred dollars about ye that ye could lend a man ez was leaving the county, dead broke? 'and I sez,' I've got it, and I know of an op'nin 'for such a man in the next county.'

    Jeff Briggs's Love Story Bret Harte 1869

  • "The kepple o 'words I had to say to ye was this: Git up and git!"

    Jeff Briggs's Love Story Bret Harte 1869

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