Example Sentences

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“So I stays here. Tis cheeper in the dark. I ent seen daylyte since I was fore. Not shore how long ago that were in all trooth but it feels a long time since.”

From The Guardian • Sep. 14, 2020

I mistook it for a "cheeper" minus a tail, and gazed placidly at its retreating form, murmuring to myself, "too small," when I was electrified by a yell—"Shoot, shoot!"

From Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport by Greville, Beatrice Violet Graham

I didn't hav but one hog, and we had to let him run out to keep him alive, for akorns was cheeper than corn at my house.

From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney