pawse

• "Buy one, gentlemen, and see what they're like, so as the 'bookies' can't pawse 'em on ye unawares!" —  The Christian A Story
• "O, awl pawse it niver fear, awl wakken thi afoor aw leave off, tha may bet thi front teeth o 'that." —  Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
• Whilst he was in perplexity, or rather some passionate disinclination to the religion he had bene educated in, he had the misfortune to have much acquaintance with one M'r Lugar a minister of that church, a man of a competency of learninge in those points most contravened with the Romanists, but of no acute parts of witt or judgement, and wrought so farr upon him, by weakeninge and enervating those arguments by which he founde he was governed (as he had all the logique and all the Rhetorique that was necessary to perswade very powerfully men of the greatest talents) that the poore man, not able to lyve longe in doubte, to hastily deserted his owne church, and betooke himselfe to the Roman, nor could all the arguments and reasons of M'r Chillingworth make him pawse in the exspedition he was usinge, or reduce him from that Church after he had given himselfe to it, but had alwayes a greate animosity against him, for havinge (as he sayd) unkindly betrayed him, and carryed him into another religion, and ther left him: So unfitt are some constitutions to be troubled with doubtes, after they are once fixed. —  Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles
• "If tha doesn't tak thysen aght o 'this haase," sed his uncle, "awl pawse thi aght, for tha's made moor bother sin tha coom in nor enuff." —  Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley
• Sometimes bi th 'way ov a change, he'll pawse th' table ower, an 'braik as mony pots as it'll tak a gooid part ov a week's wage to replace, an' at last, after makin 'iverybody abaght him miserable, he'll goa to bed lukin' as black as a mule an 'sleep woll mornin', when (unless he's ova bad sooart) he'll feel reight daan shamed ov hissel, an 'set to wark to put things reight agean. —  Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley

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