hoigh

• “Faith, she's saix feet hoigh, an 'broad in the b'ame in proporshi'n.”

  The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea

• “With this cutting innuendo, Tom jumped down from his bough, and threw a stone with a "hoigh!" as a friendly attention to Yap, who had also been looking on while the eatables vanished, with an agitation of his ears and feelings which could hardly have been without bitterness.”

  Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7

• “With this cutting innuendo, Tom jumped down from his bough, and threw a stone with a “hoigh!”

  VI. The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming. Book I—Boy and Girl

• “Yap, —hoigh! there he is, ” said Tom, clapping his hands, as the little black snout made its arrowy course to the opposite bank.”

  VI. The Aunts and Uncles Are Coming. Book I—Boy and Girl

• “She had a hazy idea that Alfred was adding something to the original purchase price of her young sisters, but she was quite at a loss to know how to refuse the offer of such a "grand 'hoigh" gentleman, even though her failure to do so would no doubt result in a beating when she reached home.”

  Baby Mine

• “Mebbe the butther is a little hoigh," exclaimed the hostess, noting that Yan was sparing of it.”

  Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned

• “I'm ommost chok'd wi 'smithy sleck, (4) the wind it is so hoigh.”

  Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems

• “She must step very hoigh," said the gentleman, turning round: and”

  Night and Morning, Complete

• “She must step very hoigh," said the gentleman, turning round: and Philip recognised the beau in the stage-coach.”

  Night and Morning, Volume 2

• “He's doon in a roight laine atwixt 't gray stean and yon hoigh ashen tree.”

  Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago

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