Word: agin
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...haven't got nuthin' agin the gintlemin at the college and I don't mind, tillin' yer a few things. The gintlemin's always pretty good to us ; we gits poor pay and if now and thin we takes a few things, yer know, of no rale value, why who kin blame the loike o' poor us? We've got ter live somehow, yer knows...
...Washington evening paper says: The following is understood to be the catechism of civil service examination under this administration: (1.) Were you connected with the New York Custom House under Chester Arthur? (2.) If not, was your father connected? (3.) Were you bounced by Hayes? (4.) Were you agin Jim Blaine...
...admit," put in a new voice, that of old Batt Belcher - a dry and wizened specimen of the retired fisherman species. "She jes' tells him up an' down wut she thinks, an' - wal, ole Jake ain't none too pious, an' he jes' socks it to her agin. An' so it goes...