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  • "Oh, but what's the use o 'bein' so everlastingly cranky and onreasonable?"

    Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls Fannie E. Newberry

  • "They say it all started because an anarchist killed an Austrian prince, but I don't believe it -- that sounds too onreasonable for me."

    The Cruise of the Dry Dock T. S. Stribling 1923

  • And them two buildin 'on Cedar Plains -- it's onreasonable.

    The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • "Stop dat cryin '; nobody ain't doin' nuthin 'to you; stop dat foolishness and listen to what Marse Jim is a sayin' to you two onreasonable rapscallions," said

    Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912

  • There ain't nothing onreasonable 'bout me; I don't mind a passer of guests a-treadin 'on my tail three or four times, but when it comes to standing on it it's different,' and if the court knows herself, 'I says,' you'll take whiskey straight or you'll go dry. '

    The Story of a Speech 1910

  • Some men is so cussin 'mean about money, and some women is so cussin' onreasonable in demandin 'of it, that it's caused more trouble between husbands and wives than any one thing on earth, I believe.

    Miss Gibbie Gault Kate Langley Bosher 1898

  • Aince a woman sets her mind on something to wear, she's mair onreasonable than the stupidest man.

    A Window in Thrums 1898

  • I'm not onreasonable. O 'course in case o' sickness I'd be glad if you could run across a squirrel.

    The Song of the Cardinal Gene Stratton-Porter 1893

  • And tell'n, Tess, that being sunk, quite, from our former grandeur, I'll sell him the title -- yes, sell it -- and at no onreasonable figure. '

    Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891

  • Troo philanthrofy has a heap of things to it that's jest as onreasonable an 'which does not incloode the fiscal teachers mentioned by the Colonel.

    Wolfville Nights Alfred Henry Lewis 1885

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