right smart spell
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Say, Tom-Jeff, I been erbout the best friend you've had, barrin' your daddy, for a right smart spell o' years.
From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe
She's been a right smart spell longah now 'n she 'lowed she'd be.
From The Mountain Girl by Payne Erskine
And I haint been sosherble with no one fur—fur a right smart spell.
From Esmeralda by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Kaintucky, but I been here a right smart spell.
From Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine
"I ain't been to the Corners for a right smart spell, but I didn't know such as her lived there."
From Six Feet Four by Jackson Gregory
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