Citations:don't

English citations of don't

1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 7, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
“I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. […]”
1980, The Police, "Don't Stand So Close to Me", Zenyatta Mondatta, A&M Records:
Don't Stand, Don't stand so, Don't stand so close to me.
1990, Dave Mustaine, "Take No Prisoners", Megadeth, Rust in Peace.
Don't ask what you can do for your country / Ask what your country can do for you
2022 September 16, Joe Biden, quotee, 0:00 from the start, in President Biden warns Vladimir Putin not to use nuclear weapons: "Don't. Don't. Don't."‎^[1], CBS News, archived from the original on 16 September 2022‎^[2]:
Scott Pelley: As Ukraine succeeds on the battlefield, Vladimir Putin is becoming embarrassed and pushed into a corner, and I wonder Mr. President what you would say to him if he is considering using chemical or tactical nuclear weapons.
Biden: Don't. Don't. Don't. It would change the face of war unlike anything since World War II.

1868, Louisa May Alcott, chapter 2, in Little Women:
My mother knows old Mr. Laurence, but says he’s very proud and don’t like to mix with his neighbors.
1971, Carol King, “So Far Away”, Tapestry, Ode Records:
I sure hope the road don’t come to own me.
2000, “Stan”, in Eminem (music), The Marshall Mathers LP:
My girlfriend's jealous 'cause I talk about you twenty-four seven / But she don't know you like I know you, Slim, no one does / She don't know what it was like for people like us growing up / You gotta call me man, I'll be the biggest fan you'll ever lose
2012, “She Don't Like the Lights”, in Justin Bieber (music), Believe:
She don't like the flash, wanna keep us in the dark / She don't like the fame, baby when we're miles apart
2013, “Highway Don't Care”, in Tim McGraw (music), Two Lanes of Freedom:
The highway don't care
2017, “Rico Acid”, Emily Blue (music):
Love don't come easy, I know that it don't