Citations:'em

English citations of 'em

• 1602, William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night:

  Some are become great, some atcheeues greatnesse, and some haue greatnesse thrust vppon em.

• 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

  Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting ’em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.

• 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Chora's Den, Citadel:

  Harkin: I spent twenty years working cases here on the Citadel. People on this station love to talk. Secrets are like herpes. If you got 'em, you might as well spread 'em around.

• 2010, John Baron, The Guardian, 3 December:

  We've literally had dozens of your photographs submitted this week – keep ’em coming!