Rustic.

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1796.  

        So fine a sight (says Yankee to his friend)
I swear I never seen—you may depend.
Address at the opening of the N. York Theatre.—The Aurora, Phila., Sept. 30.    

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1840.  I never seen taller lying than that at a ward meeting!—Knick. Mag., xv. 378 (May).

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1842.  See FRICKLE.

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1847.  Arter supper I seen the boys was in for a frolic.—T. B. Thorpe, ‘The Big Bear of Arkansas,’ p. 168 (Phila.).

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1850.  We spoke of Major Andre. ‘Oh,’ said the old lady, ‘I seen him more’n fifty times. He was a handsome man, and he was a kind man…. I seen [him] myself when he was a-swingin’, and I seen him when he was dug up.’—Knick. Mag., xxxvi. 87 (July).

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