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  • An 'I tell you, where's wimmen is trouble -- screechin' an 'carryin' on, fightin ', cuttin', bobbies, magistrates, an 'a month's

    A MAN AND THE ABYSS 2010

  • When he hears they are in the stable, he says, "Well, b'gosh, but wimmen is queer folks!"

    Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

  • ` An 'I tell you, where's wimmen is trouble -- screechin' an 'carryin' on, fightin ', cuttin', bobbies, magistrates, an 'a month's

    Man and the Abyss 1903

  • "Serepta sez you call wimmen angels, and you don't give 'em the rights of the lowest beasts that crawl on the earth.

    Samantha on the Woman Question Marietta Holley 1881

  • Thus, when the force of constables claimed admittance, forty-one women, virtually indistinguishable one from the other, ran out into the street, and the bewildered minions of the law were left lifting their helmets to scratch puzzled heads and admitting "the wimmen were a bit too much for us, this time, they were."

    Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement Harry Hamilton Johnston 1892

  • "Men have got stronger minds than wimmen, that is the reason."

    Samantha Among the Brethren, Complete Marietta Holley 1881

  • "Oh," sez he, "that's a bizness phrase wimmen don't understand, we men use it often."

    Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands Marietta Holley 1881

  • "Men have got stronger minds than wimmen, that is the reason."

    Samantha among the Brethren — Volume 5 Marietta Holley 1881

  • We wimmen, that is, the most of us, will be off and away down to Rattlesnake Bar shoppin 'afore sun up, so ye'll sleep ez long ez ye want to, and find yer breakfast ready when ye wake.

    Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation Bret Harte 1869

  • I love how the intellectually inadequate go right for the gay or "wimmen" jibes rather than argue the point.

    March 30 Stop CyberBullying Day Rachel 2007

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