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It is not necessary, even in the cold atmosphere of this world, to become contractedly selfish; cold expands noble natures as it does water....

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Chez is nowhere used; but in the southern part utche or iche, is sometimes spoken contractedly che.

From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by Jennings, James

His descendants were called after him Skioldungs, or, contractedly, Skiolds.

From The Death of Balder by Borrow, George Henry