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  • We a had zum zenvy -- an tha ten yacres be a haind -- a'll be maw'd in veo dâs -- you'll come an hâ-maky, o'nt ye?

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

  • A'm a prood man, Hector McKaye; a'll nae take a grrand eeducashun at sic a price.

    Kindred of the Dust 1918

  • He dimly perceived his assistant was "up to something," and connecting him with the anointing of the coils with oil that had rotted the varnish in one place, he issued an edict, shouted above the confusion of the machinery, "Don't 'ee go nigh that big dynamo any more, Pooh-bah, or a'll take thy skin off!"

    The Door in the Wall, and Other Stories Herbert George 1911

  • He dimly perceived his assistant was "up to something," and connecting him with the anointing of the coils with oil that had rotted the varnish in one place, he issued an edict, shouted above the confusion of the machinery, "Don't 'ee go nigh that big dynamo any more, Pooh-bah, or a'll take thy skin off!"

    The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories 1906

  • He dimly perceived his assistant was "up to something," and connecting him with the anointing of the coils with oil that had rotted the varnish in one place, he issued an edict, shouted above the confusion of the machinery, "Don't 'ee go nigh that big dynamo any more, Pooh-bah, or a'll take thy skin off!"

    The Door in the Wall and Other Stories 1906

  • But '(regretfully)' ye'll no 'can get it here; an' a'm thinkin 'a'll juist sign yon teetotal thing.'

    Black Rock: a Tale of the Selkirks Ralph Connor 1898

  • 'Na! na! lad -- a'll juist leave them till the Almichty.'

    Black Rock: a Tale of the Selkirks Ralph Connor 1898

  • 'Na, na,' replied Geordie cautiously, 'a'll no gang where a'm no wanted.

    Black Rock: a Tale of the Selkirks Ralph Connor 1898

  • "This wy, an 'a'll see tae yir luggage," and before Peter made for the

    Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878

  • "A'm the Beadle o 'Drumtochty" -- standing in his place -- "an 'a'll dae yir pleesure;" and the occasion was too awful for any one, even the dog's master, to assist, far less to laugh.

    Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers Ian Maclaren 1878

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