Example Sentences

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“Don’t know exactly. Round dust dark Ah reckon. It’s uh sorta long trip—specially if Ah hafter lead one on de way back.”

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

“It’ll hafter be done all over agin, Mis’ Starks.”

From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston

I allus did obey jis' like I was teached to do and dey didn' hafter whip me.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. Texas Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration

I uster go to see a gal and I uster hafter pass right by a ol' graveyard.

From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 by United States. Work Projects Administration

But the mast, sich as acorns and beech and hickory nuts, is mostly on the Car’lina side; that’s whar they hafter come to feed.

From Our Southern Highlanders by Kephart, Horace