Example Sentences

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Come, now—get the j'ists from aaf the end, there.

From Twelve Men by Dreiser, Theodore

It's naht me that can be waalked on by a loafer like that—an' me payin' him more than ever he was worth, an' him waalkin' aaf an' l'avin' the job half done.

From Twelve Men by Dreiser, Theodore

Wait till we have thirty er forty av thim on the line," he once observed to me in connection with them, "every man layin' his six hundred bricks a day, er takin' aaf his apron!

From Twelve Men by Dreiser, Theodore

I'll tache ye to waalk aaf an' l'ave the hole open, an' me in it.

From Twelve Men by Dreiser, Theodore