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D 1 33 Gods pretious, come avvay man, vvhat do you mean? and you knevv him as I do, you’ld ſhun him, as you’ld do the plague?
en w:Rupert Brooke Lithuania: A Drama in One Act Stewart Kidd Modern Plays Cincinnati, Oh. Stewart Kidd CompanyPublishers 1915 8 https://archive.org/details/lithuaniaadrama00broogoog/page/n13/mode/1up 2363551 Who’d want anything here, to rob us? And is it likely any one ’ld want me? And Anna—Anna ’ld give them more than they came for. She’s stronger than most men.
en w:Alec Waugh The Slave-trader No Quarter London;Toronto, Ont.; Melbourne, Vic.; Sydney, N.S.W. 1 Cassell and Company,Limited 1932 125 https://archive.org/details/noquarter0000alex/page/125/mode/1up 16513810 There was no risk, he said. He liked life as much as anyone. If there were any risk he’ld be the first to dodge it.
en w:John Betjeman Narcissus High and Low London John Murray,Albemarle Street 1966 section “Light and Dark” 58 https://archive.org/details/highlow0000betj/page/58/mode/1up 1632409 We’ld go for walks, we bosom boyfriends would / (For Bobby’s watching sisters drove us mad), / And when we just did nothing we were good, / But when we touched each other we were bad.
en 21 April 2016 Jennifer Hashmi The Ring of the Dragon’s Hair Sonny and the Heroic Deeds Bloomington, Ind. w:AuthorHouse 40 https://archive.org/details/sonnyheroicdeeds0000hash/page/40/mode/1up 978-1-5246-3254-0 “We’ve got his lunch here,” said Gogo. “Maybe he’ld like it now.”