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  • Join we together to watch the fall-of tyrants, evil, foul and base, from their tarnis'd iv'ry tower place.

    Ye Olde Political Theatre 2007

  • We're could iv'ry one be a Wellington - that would please ye, Mr. Helstone - and sich paragraphs as we could contrive for t 'papers!

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • "Well," returned the foreman, "iv'ry thing's wid you this mornin 'but yure head," and he pointed out several blunders which Dennis had made.

    The Flaw in the Sapphire Charles M. Snyder

  • An 'they had a game iv forty-fives, an' there was wan Mickrobe there that larned to play th 'game in th' County Tipp'rary, where 'tis played on stone, an 'iv'ry time he led thrumps he'd like to knock me head off.

    Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform Various

  • Flora says he niver see more th'n one -- jist one big, long, ugly-faced horrible black one; the same one comin 'back an' makin 'a fizzin' n'ise at um iv'ry time he had the fit on um.

    Penrod and Sam Booth Tarkington 1907

  • His iv'ry stoop rails had been sawed off close to his jaw, so he didn't look any more wicked than a foldin'-bed.

    Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

  • I expect his dome was solid iv'ry, -- most of them sluggers have that kind, -- and in this case he needed it; for, once he gets goin ', Uncle Noah makes a thorough job of it.

    Shorty McCabe on the Job Sewell Ford 1907

  • Poor woman, she says he talked so plain she sees 'em both herself, iv'ry time she looks at the poor body where it's laid out.

    Penrod and Sam Booth Tarkington 1907

  • -- "I've believed that way these eighteen years," sez ould Shadd, his eyes twinklin '; "but Mrs. Shadd has her own opinion, like iv'ry woman."

    Soldier Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Shadd, his eyes twinklin '; "but Mrs. Shadd has her own opinion, like iv'ry woman," -- "'Tis wid yours this time, for a mericle," sez Mother

    Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

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