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"ref": "1851, Unknown, Whig Against Tory:",
"text": "You no trudge so--you nebber get tere.",
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"ref": "1867, Lydia Maria Francis Child, A Romance of the Republic:",
"text": "\"Yer see, Missis,\" said Tom, with a sly look, \"dey tinks de niggers don't none ob 'em wants dare freedom, so dey nebber totes 'em whar it be.\"",
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"ref": "1899, Charles Waddell Chesnutt, The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and:",
"text": "I 'spec's ter haf ter suppo't 'im w'en I fin' 'im, fer he nebber would work 'less'n he had ter.",
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"ref": "1897, Mabel Osgood Wright, Elliott Coues, Citizen Bird:",
"text": "Sho, now! come to t'ink o' Sambo, he didn't nebber like Mockers, a'ter one time he 'spicioned a Mocker tole tales on him.",
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"ref": "1902, Robert W. Chambers, The Maid-At-Arms:",
"text": "An' she 'low ain' nebber wore no ring.",
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"ref": "1905, Alice Hegan Rice, Sandy:",
"text": "Dey calls it 'Who'd 'a' Thought It,' 'ca'se you nebber would 'a' thought of puttin' a house dere.",
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"ref": "1918, Alice Hegan Rice, Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories:",
"text": "I done worked on lizards in de laigs, but I nebber had no 'casion to treat a cricket in de laig.",
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"ref": "1919, O. Henry, Rolling Stones:",
"text": "Cindy done paid out de last quarter fer dis bottle of physic, and it nebber come to no use.\"",
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"ref": "1897, Mabel Osgood Wright, Elliott Coues, Citizen Bird:",
"text": "Sho, now! come to t'ink o' Sambo, he didn't nebber like Mockers, a'ter one time he 'spicioned a Mocker tole tales on him.",
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"text": "An' she 'low ain' nebber wore no ring.",
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"text": "Cindy done paid out de last quarter fer dis bottle of physic, and it nebber come to no use.\"",
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