Word: wal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Accompanying a cut of a very astonishing figure of Father Time with his scythe and an animated clothes-dummy, the Athen&aeum appends this motto - "Western Granger to Snodkins of Harvard: 'So you be a collidge man. Wal, collidge was the makin...
...Wal, ef ye go to her, she'li jest say, 'I do' want for anything',' kinder stuck-up like an' - an' wut's th' use?" demanded old Mr. Belcher...
...summut kinky, I'll 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...
...Wal, ther's suthin' in't, for he left me this here money, an' I mus' send raound the goods," observed Nahum Metcalf, disposed to view the stranger in a favorable light...
...Wal, this does beat all! How Jane would like to set eyes on this. I never see so many books together in all my born days. Where do ye suppose they come from...