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en w:Elizabeth Robins XVI The Convert New York, N.Y. w:Grosset & Dunlap 1907 258 https://archive.org/details/convert00robigoog/page/n268/mode/1up Only they ’aven’t got a fair chawnce even to agitate fur their rights.
34 ’Aven’t you got a drink, Missis, for a man when he comes home barkled up from the pit.
en Paula Hudd “There Was Once . . .” The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly for Men and Women LVI London; Melbourne, Vic. Ward, Lock & Co., Limited 1922 76 https://archive.org/details/acd6136.0056.001.umich.edu/page/74/mode/1up 2 “I ’aven’t said ‘Yes,’ and I ’aven’t said ‘No,’ ” she remarked.
en w:Ruth Dudley Edwards Corridors of Death London Quartet Qrime 1981 91 https://archive.org/details/corridorsofdeath0000edwa/page/91/mode/1up 0-7043-2311-7 I ’aven’t got where I am today wivout bein’ able to spot a poofdah when I see one.
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