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{{{{Jamamamama}}}} wut ai haitz tu se iz me becuming mai favvur. mai muvvur nawt so tejus.
“It’s the CIRCLE OF LIF–” - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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De consequens wuz I crep 'long mighty tejus, gittin 'a crum here an' dar untel I cud read de Bible by skippin 'de long words, tolerable well.
John Jasper: The Unmatched Negro Philosopher and Preacher William Eldridge 1908
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After awhile I staggered up onto my feet, and finally I got so I could walk straight and sense things a little; though it was tejus work to walk anyway, for we had landed on a sand-bar, and the sand was so deep it was all we could do to wade through it, and it was as hot as hot ashes ever was.
Little Masterpieces of American Wit and Humor Volume I Various 1900
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Melissy, dear, put on your cloak: it's a purty tejus evenin '.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) Various 1887
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So, receevin transportashen and suffishent money from the secret service fund for expenses, I departed for Cleveland, and after a tejus trip thro 'an Ablishn country, I arrived there.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.) Various 1887
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Cars is awful tejus ridin ', fer all they go so fast!
Riley Love-Lyrics James Whitcomb Riley 1882
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Cars is awful tejus ridin ', fer all they go so fast!
Riley Love-Lyrics James Whitcomb Riley 1882
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Cars is awful tejus ridin ', fer all they go so fast!
Green Fields and Running Brooks, and Other Poems James Whitcomb Riley 1882
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It's so tejus to knit stockings, and sech fun to go barefoot, that I don't wear 'em unless Misc Somers finds it out.
The Entailed Hat Or, Patty Cannon's Times George Alfred Townsend 1877
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The Sunday before Thanksgiving was bitterly cold, "tejus weather" in the farmer's phrase.
The Duke of Stockbridge Edward Bellamy 1874
ry commented on the word tejus
A lizard, Tejus rufescens or Tejus teguexin. See teju
March 11, 2013