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...Ain't going to be no party," said Willie firmly, and Floyd solemnly nodded...
...Furthermore," said Willie firmly, "we ain't buying anything...
...There ain't agoing to be no core," said Tom Sawyer, but he was 80 years ahead of the times. The first coreless, seedless apples known to science were discovered only last year. Weighing a plump quarter-pound each, they grow on a freak tree in Mrs. Libbie Wilcox's backyard in Huntington Park, Calif...
There was some talking going on, but it was very spasmodic. Someone three seats down on my right would say, "Stub Pearson sure is getting knocked flat on his back, Mike, ain't he." (I figured him for the New York, Times). Then from all around would come an answering chorus of affirmative grunts, and the baldish gent on my left would grab in front of me for the binoculars of the man on the right and stare down at the field for a long minute and then add his own assent with a tardy lackadaisical "Yeah...
...absorbed by the sight that I did not notice that the onlookers were uncovering their heads until a man behind me touched my shoulder. 'Take off your hat,' he said in a low tone, 'and show your respect for a real man. Ain't you got no manners?' " At that moment young Bellamy Partridge realized that manners "were not just a form of household oppression . . . but that they had a substantial standing in the community...