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  • The tree in the middle has anemic-looking leaves - a'd that.

    the secret sense Tan, Amy 1995

  • But aw! lor 'Jimmeny! warn't 'a disappointed when 'a found what' a'd ben so hankerin 'arter warn't wuth givin' a snail's shill to knaw.

    Drolls From Shadowland

  • I zeed Farmer Haggit zoon âter I upt, an a zed, nif a voun one o 'my shee-ape in tha vive-an-twenty yacres, a'd drash I za long as a cood ston auver me, an wi' a groun ash 'too!

    The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings

  • "An thou tell it, the more fool thou," saith she; and a draws up her red lips into a circle as though a'd had a drawstring in 'em, and a stands and looks at him as a used to stand and look at her dam when she chid her for a romp.

    A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales Am��lie Rives 1904

  • "Methinks," quoth she, "if a'd do a little joining to a's own shackling body, a might hold together long enough to go through the marriage ceremony," saith she.

    A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales Am��lie Rives 1904

  • 'Michael Slavin, a' promised the lad a'd bear ye nae ill wull, but juist leave ye tae the Almichty; an 'I want tae tell ye that a'm keepin' ma wur-r-d.

    Black Rock: a Tale of the Selkirks Ralph Connor 1898

  • If there wes a man in Muirtown 'at cud dae mair for her, a'd have him this verra nicht, but a' the doctors in Perthshire are helpless for this tribble.

    Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

  • If there wes a man in Muirtown 'at cud dae mair for her, a'd have him this verra nicht, but a' the doctors in

    A Doctor of the Old School — Volume 2 Ian Maclaren 1878

  • If there wes a man in Muirtown 'at cud dae mair for her, a'd have him this verra nicht, but a' the doctors in

    A Doctor of the Old School — Complete Ian Maclaren 1878

  • Then a 'noticed that he left the Bible open at the place till anither text was due, an' I wunnered a'd been sae slow.

    Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush Ian Maclaren 1878

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