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Example Sentences

• "But Miss Carrie’s like a rose in de morning, and little Lottie is anoder leetle rose in de morning; and ebbry pusson dat you carss to yer ’bout is most astonishing, charming well, ’cept, as I say, de ole colonel; and de fire in he foot makes him bile ober ebbry now and den, and it’s mighty hard for a ’spectable gentleman to stan’ him when he’s in his ondecent passion!"
• "Ah, them charity s’ieties does a deal o’ harm! and if they’d got money enough (which ’tis a providence they ha’ not) we shouldn’t have a ’spectable boy-thief in all London!"
• "“Just tell me; do I come here for society, or for quiet? Have I said before, make as little noise as you can, or have I not? Do I mean what I say, or do I not? Answer me,” resumed the man in the dressing-gown. / “Bless my skin, if I know,” said Jimmy, looking immensely bewildered. “What right have you to come abusing a ’spectable gentleman’s sarvant?”"
• "Tell lies ’bout me, will he? Hic! Oh, ya’as, he’s gwine ter cotch it—now you see if he don’t! Well he is—he orter know what de quensequances am-hic-fo’ insultin’ a ’spectable gentleman ob my standin’."
• "“Hello,” says the black imp of a car porter, “let me help you up. That berth never would stay up, and it’s too bad to mash your hat so that it is not fit to wear by a ’spectable gentleman.”"
• "Upon Oliver answering in the affirmative, the strange boy, whose name was Jack Dawkins, said, “I’ve got to be in London to-night; and I know a ’spectable old genelman as lives there, wot’ll give you lodgings for nothink, and never ask for the change—that is, if any genelman he knows interduces you.”"