hap'orth

"The fact o 'the matter is," said Mr. Joe, who was growing garrulous on an obviously pet subject, "that we aint afeerd o 'the p'lese in this neighborhood, not a hap'orth; _we_ know how to manage them."

The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 Various

Sorra a hap'orth to spare will I find; it's no me two hands alone can find bread for the mouths

Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and her Irish Nurse Anonymous

"What'r yer lookin 'at, three hap'orth o' pap?" he snarled.

Sons and Lovers 1913

If I had made the least struggle I must have broken both legs, but I let the ladder do just as it pleased, and one-half was so good as to fall clean off one foot, without doing a hap'orth of harm to foot or leg.

Maria Edgeworth 1905

"What'r yer lookin 'at, three hap'orth o' pap?" he snarled.

Sons and Lovers 1907

That's the truth, Mary; and if it's choosing a wilful blindness you are, I'm thinking there isn't anyone in this place will ever be giving you a hand's turn or a hap'orth of meal, or be doing the little things you need to keep you at all living in the world.

The Well of the Saints: A Comedy in Three Acts 1905

I sent him to the shop for a hap'orth of snuff 219

The Nursery Rhyme Book Andrew Lang 1901

Thady was a small, anxious-looking child, whose pale and peaky face his mother often likened regretfully to a hap'orth of soap after a week's washing.

Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887

Never a hap'orth of good was I at anythin 'except the trifle of mathematics, but he was as great at the Classics ....

Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887

It don't make a hap'orth of difference to e'er a one of ye!

The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn Harry Collingwood 1886