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“They call me Ma because I give them money and horses and diamonds,” Mandelbaum reportedly said.

"I supposed you 'adn't, as 'e ain't 'ere, with yer ma," replied the young person.

Dieu se servit de cette sienne bonne volont, non seulement pour ma sauvet, mais autant pour celle de tout l'esquipage.

The whole farm was just clear rocks, ma says, and that's why the walls are four five feet thick, some of 'em more.

Ma says all the gold'll ever be dug out o' Skyrie is them rocks he put into his stone walls.

I would, too, but ma she hadn't nothing nice cooked up, and she was sort of scared offerin' city folks country victuals.