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Examples
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Then Candace called pressin’ me ’bout comin’ through ’cause she hasn’t seen me in a minute.
Daddy Long Stroke Cairo 2010
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They don't always realize the impohtance o 'pressin' business mattehs.
The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains Emerson Hough 1890
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Ob co'se, dey's got ter hev wuk in de crop, but you mus '' member dat when de 'lection comes off de crap's all laid by, an' der ain't no mo 'pressin' need fer wuk fer months ter come.
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Takin 'the coals from the bucket, each by each, an' pressin 'them deep in that beautiful dough.
Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life Evelyn Raymond 1876
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Ob co'se, dey's got ter hev wuk in de crop, but you mus 'member dat when de' lection comes off de crap's all laid by, an 'der ain't no mo' pressin 'need fer wuk fer months ter come.
Bricks Without Straw Albion Winegar Tourg��e 1871
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"'I did play,' he says to her -- he had a nice little way o 'pressin' down hard with his voice on one word an 'lettin' the next run off his tongue -- 'I did play dreams,' I rec'lect he says; 'I dreamed 'bout robbers.
Friendship Village Zona Gale 1906
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Sent wot was left to the 'orspittles, I hear, and me as flat as an autumn leaf after six months' pressin 'in the family Bible. "
Cleek, the Master Detective Thomas W. Hanshew 1885
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Marlow is employed to transport ivory downriver; however his more pressin click here…..
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I kept pressin ‘confirm’ an it kept sayin still reqwestin.
do not ask why box barks - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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I'm gonna keep on pressin 'hard and forward, until true love, I've found
Junior Parker Lyrics 2009
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