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She'd like it—oh, my! wouldn't she like it, jest like—I mean jest like spellin'!
From Queen Hildegarde by Richards, Laura Elizabeth Howe
As for authografy, evry genlmn has his own: never mind spellin, I say, so long as the sence is right.
From The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by Thackeray, William Makepeace
I'm afraid," confessed Cai, more and more bewildered, "that my education was pretty badly neglected, 'specially in literature, though for some reason or another I'm not bad at spellin'.
From Hocken and Hunken by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
I want Bromley and Kumpany to fix up the spellin a leetle, and then I think the book will pass muster.
From Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Smith, Seba
"I got forty in readin' and sixty in spellin'."
From Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations by Fanning, C. E. (Clara Elizabeth)
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