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[Sidenote: Pr [= a] rthan [= a] Sam [= a] jes or Prayer Associations of S.W. India.] _The Pr [= a] rthan [= a] Sam [= a] jes_ or Prayer Associations of South-W.stern ❋ John Morrison (N/A)

"I jes wanter pat it wunst," sighed the hereditary enemy, with a lithe writhing of her thin little anatomy in the anguish of denial -- "_jes wunst! ❋ Mary Noailles Murfree (1886)

"You was sleepin 'jes' too comfortable for anythin '," Henry told him, as he routed him out for breakfast. ❋ Unknown (1906)

It beats all natur how fightin 'jes' grows on a man once he's had a taste. ❋ Pauline Elizabeth (1902)

So I axed Marse Si War 'ef he'd lend me his name jes fer de' casion, yer know, an 'he sed he hadn't no' jection ter it. ❋ Unknown (1880)

So I axed Marse Si War 'ef he'd lend me his name jes fer de ❋ Albion Winegar Tourg��e (1871)

I 'lowed ez mebbe my dad tole me that word jes' ter hender me, an 'keep me at the forge. ❋ Mary Noailles Murfree (1886)

Joe Deeves never did nothin ', never warbled once, an' jes 'because his stomach was out of order, Manchester ups an' plugs him. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It's th' jes' folks down home vaguely Southern accent with just enough of an African-American twinge to make him think he's covering ALL his fly-over constituencies, both black and redneck. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)

Captain Jester never did get around to decidin 'jes' what my rank oughta be. ❋ Asprin, Robert (2001)

Bud, a slubber-slave -- henpecked at home, brow-beaten and cowed at the mill, timid, scared, "an 'powerful slow-mouthed," as his spouse termed it, worshipped the old Bishop and had no greater pleasure in life, after his hard week's work, than "to ride to meetin 'with the old man an' jes 'hear him narrate." ❋ John Trotwood Moore (N/A)

I had everything fixed even to the moon which was shinin 'jes' bright enough to carry us to the Justice's without a lantern, some three miles away, an 'into the nex' county. ❋ John Trotwood Moore (N/A)

I don't mean nothin 'by it, an' the boys all understand it, but when a man cusses me I allers knock him down -- do it befo 'I think' -- I said -- 'jes' a habit I've got. ' ❋ John Trotwood Moore (N/A)

After a while he'll get silly an 'desperate, an' jes '' fo 'he kills hisse'l Tilly'll fix him all right an' tie him up for life. ❋ John Trotwood Moore (N/A)

"Well, I don 'jes' know about dat," answered Mandy. ❋ Marion Dix [Editor] Mosher (N/A)

Den he backed off an 'jes' stood a-lookin 'at de Yankee, presently he went back an' give him anudder quarter, den anudder, den he said, 'You take dis whole dollar, you is de first Yankee I eber seed trimmed up jes' to my notion, so take all dis, jes 'take de whole dollar, you is trimmed up to my notion'. ❋ Various (N/A)

"I dunno as I 'se, to say, po'ly," Wat replies, "but dat boy's been a-pesterin 'me dis livelong day, a-callin' 'Daddy, Daddy!' jes 'like I talkin' now, till seem like I 'se most beat out along o' him." ❋ Margaret Devereux (N/A)

An 'jes' as I put de pocket book up agin -- an 'it was plum' empty -- roun 'de corner come de cow, wid her eyes on fire, an' she jes 'strewed us bofe ober de groun' like we was dead chickens afore she runned inter de shed. ❋ Elizabeth Strong Worthington (N/A)

[Whistles Marseillaise until they have finished, then stops suddenly and says to the boy behind the counter.] -- Say, ain't them two nice specimens to be bawlin 'jes' 'cause they ain't got no home? ❋ Various (N/A)

He tuk up sumfin 'to flro at de snake, an' jes 'den he ceed in de bushes a nale keg, an' wus glad dat he had foun 'a keg ob nales. ❋ Robert Arnold (N/A)