Word: jist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...larger one, size of a fist. He turned away, and within three minutes was shot down stone dead. I don't know why. The high sheriff came. Men set off upriver and down, running with guns in their hands. A woman cried, "Oh Bonny, my uncle's jist got his brains shot...
...aint a gittin much larnin in this hyar kollege sose if u wants ter git hitched rite away, i am reddy. Be shore ter let me no sose i can walk home ter git pa ter stop feudin for a hour or so. aint love jist the most wonderful thing? Suzanne Adair Williams, Texas State College for Women, Denton, Texas...
...These hills are jist dirt waves, washing through eternity. My brethren, they hain't a valley so low but what hit'll rise again. They hain't a hill standing so proud but hit'll sink to the low ground o' sorrow. Oh, my children, where air we going on this mighty river of earth, aborning, begetting, and a-dying-the living and the dead riding the waters . . .?" Author Still restrains even this. His boy hero goes to sleep; another begins inattentively to whittle...