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  • "Faith and of ahm that," said Aladdin, lapsing into full brogue; "oi'm a hireling sojer, mahm, and no inimy av yours, mahm."

    Aladdin O'Brien Gouverneur Morris 1914

  • 'Oi hain't no bloomin' temperance horator, and mayhap oi hain't no right to speak 'ere, but oi got somethin' to saigh (say) and oi'm agoin 'to saigh it.

    Black Rock: a Tale of the Selkirks Ralph Connor 1898

  • And that's w'ere oi'm a-goin 'straight, and yer bloomin' League, wisky or no wisky, can't help me.

    Black Rock: a Tale of the Selkirks Ralph Connor 1898

  • "Oi shall have so much walkin 'on me bate in New York, that it's well to begin settin' down aready, oi'm a-thinkin '."

    An Original Belle Edward Payson Roe 1863

  • Barney doffed his hat and exclaimed, "Long loife to yez all, espacially to the swate-faced young leddy that first spoke a good wourd for me, oi'm a-thinkin ';" and he stepped lightly around to the rear of the house.

    An Original Belle Edward Payson Roe 1863

  • Sit ye down here, for oi'm a-goin 'to spake plain the noight.

    An Original Belle Edward Payson Roe 1863

  • But oi'm a lad o 't' forest, and 'll be a keeper some toime.

    Olive A Novel Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856

  • Location: oi'm blowin 'up' alf o 'paris sure' n begorra

    Gamers With Jobs 2009

  • (pulling violently at her apron-string.) "Meary, oi'm afear'd you don't feel like oie."

    Roughing It in the Bush Susanna Moodie 1844

  • "Well," he said, "oi'm not wan uv his pershonal fri'nds.

    The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life John Kendrick Bangs 1892

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