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Examples
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Viennese midnight he was loudly proclaiming that he "Was'h Bri'sh subjesch," and that unless something was done mighty quick, would complain to "Is Majeshy's rep (hic) shenativ 'ver' firsch thing 'n morn'."
Europe Revised 1910
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Take me, you longshore sons of sharks, to the Bri'sh Conshul's!
In the Wrong Paradise Andrew Lang 1878
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"Bri'sh sailor officer set Caesar free, -- Caesar open um moufe?"
Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop George Manville Fenn 1870
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May be something interesting to a nat'ral hist'ry gent like you, and we may get his head and skin for you to take home to the Bri'sh Museum.
Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco George Manville Fenn 1870
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Caesar show way when Bri'sh cap'en come wif plenty men.
Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop George Manville Fenn 1870
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"Bri'sh sailor kill Massa Huggin, no kill poor niggah," cried the black.
Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop George Manville Fenn 1870
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Bri'sh rifle and the sergeant coming round and giving you hooroar for not keeping your arms in order.
!Tention A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War George Manville Fenn 1870
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"No, sir; you'll have to set up one o 'them spars, the one with the little truck for the halliards right a top o' the highest pynte, to fly the Bri'sh colours, and you can send him there."
Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea George Manville Fenn 1870
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"I ketched sight of a bit of scarlet ever so far off, and that must mean Bri'sh soldiers."
!Tention A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War George Manville Fenn 1870
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Caesar bring Bri'sh officer, Bri'sh sailor, see Obeah night.
Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop George Manville Fenn 1870
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