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  • If PARNELL was to come up to me here, now, and ask me to sheek um by the hand, oi'd say, "Shtand back, ye d---- d scoundthrel!"

    Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891 Various

  • Oi've been wan o 'the biggest libertines in this or anny other city in me toime -- there's no blagardhism oi'd have put beyant me -- but oi till ye this.

    Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891 Various

  • 'Oi wish oi'd 'a done better -- oi do,' and his eyes sought Geordie, and then rested on Mrs. Mavor, who smiled back at him with a world of love in her eyes.

    Black Rock: a Tale of the Selkirks Ralph Connor 1898

  • Sure an 'oi'll pay the rint: oi'd clane forgotten this was the day, but oi've some money by me, bhoy, an' yez can have it. "

    William Adolphus Turnpike William Banks

  • "Be gorry, sorr, if I could wroite at all at all, ut's not you oi'd be wroitin 'that tale to, but to the edithor of the paper that you wroite for.

    Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others John Kendrick Bangs 1892

  • "'Oi'll not carry yez,' said the policeman, 'and oi'd advoise ye to furnish yure own locomotion.

    The Water Ghost and Others John Kendrick Bangs 1892

  • Wid a horse betune me legs, it's on parade oi'd be now, Miss, and not wandhering over the bare flure of the Marsh, stharved wid the cold, the thirst, and hunger, wid the mud and the moire thick on me; facin 'an illigant young leddy as is the ekal ov a Fayld Marshal's darter -- not to sphake ov Kernal Preston's -- ez couldn't hold a candle to her. "

    The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales Bret Harte 1869

  • Oi don't want to do more for Polly nor oi'd do for moi own. "

    Through the Fray A Tale of the Luddite Riots 1867

  • He once said I blew hot and could, but oi'd give him me loife's blood now. "

    An Original Belle Edward Payson Roe 1863

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