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  • Well, although Jim was mortally hurt an 'sufferin' -- as the tracks showed afterwards -- he tried to drag himself to the bushes in order to help the woman who had shot him an 'who he had shot unknowin'; but he was too badly hurt, an 'he died twenty yards from the place whar he fell. "

    The Boy With the U.S. Census Francis Rolt-Wheeler 1918

  • For Christ's sake, I'm fuckin 'sufferin' in here. '

    It's October, 1956. Shelagh Power-Chopra 2010

  • For Christ's sake, I'm fuckin 'sufferin' in here. '

    Boiling a Frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2005

  • For Christ's sake, I'm fuckin 'sufferin' in here. '

    Boiling a frog Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 2000

  • Poor girl, it's little she knew from that day on but grief an 'trouble an' sufferin '.

    The Alchemist's Secret Isabel Cecilia Williams

  • It's mostly the young as bears his particular kind of sufferin ', but it's on his face in as plain readin' as the family Bible.

    Aunt Rachel David Christie Murray

  • I suppose probably Maxine Elliott is better-looking than what you are, maybe, but I always was crazy over your kind of girl -- blond hair and nice, clear eyes and just shoulder-high -- kind of a girl that could snuggle down beside a fireplace and look like she grew there -- not one of these domineerin 'sufferin' cats females.

    The Job An American Novel Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • I've heard of guys that had killed a man feelin 'squeamish over it -- with ghosts visitin' them at night; an 'sufferin' a lot of mental torture.

    'Drag' Harlan Charles Alden Seltzer 1908

  • You understand the weavin 'trade, and you've a heart to feel for the poor weavers' sufferin's.

    The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I Gerhart Hauptmann 1904

  • -- I'm not sorry for what's happened, though I've had my share o 'sufferin' in quiet.

    The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Gerhart Hauptmann 1904

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