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Examples
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"Looks like Poplar isn't too pop'lar, " she says, and giggles.
Songs of the Humpback Whale Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 1992
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Mas'r Very am mighty pop'lar wid de Jedge, and I believes dat Miss Viola am lookin 'on him wid more'n common feelin's.
The Kentucky Ranger Edward T. Curnick
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"Ain't it nice to be pop'lar?" sighed Peace in ecstasy.
The Lilac Lady Ruth Alberta Brown
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"It used to be awful pop'lar when -- when I came here to Poketown to teach school."
Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long
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MR. PUNCH, -- _My Dear Sir_: -- I skurcely need inform you that your excellent Tower is very pop'lar with pe'ple from the agricultooral districks, and it was chiefly them class which I found waitin at the gates the other mornin.
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"Huh! ain't yer gittin 'pop'lar?" croaked the boy, grinning at her.
Janice Day at Poketown Helen Beecher Long
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Gentlemen, let everywan here do his very best to get every elektor to vote for Sandy, Mester Bowden, the pop'lar candidate.
My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond
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Doggone, boy, you sho 'would be pop'lar durin' de hot spell down where us comes f'um.
Lady Luck Hugh Wiley
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Here's my notion: To make a pop'lar measure of it; somethin 'that'll appeal to the folks.
Scattergood Baines Clarence Budington Kelland 1922
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Third prize, one quart of bottle in bond whiskey doneated by our pop'lar townsman an 'leadin' citizen, Mr. Jake Grimshaw, proprietor of The Long Horn Saloon.
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