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Examples
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“And me a drap of the grey-peard, if you please, Mrs. Putler,” added Duncan.
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“Never fash your peard about it, man,” interrupted
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As Sir Hugh observes, "I like not when a 'oman has a great peard."
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various
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By Cheshu, he is an ass, as in the world: I will verify as much in his peard: he has no more directions in the true disciplines of the wars, look you, of the Roman disciplines, than is a puppy-dog.
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By yea and no, I think the oman is a witch indeed: I like not when a oman has a great peard; I spy a great peard under her muffler.
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"I like not when a 'oman has a great peard: I spy a great peard under her muffler."
The Bed-Book of Happiness Harold Begbie 1900
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"My paw he married ag'in, and me stepmother peard like she didn't care for me; so one day I sez to paw, 'I'm goin' to work in the mills '-- an' I lef home all alone and come here."
The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls John Van Vorst 1900
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"He 'peard to want some ole Conyyac what was in the sideboard, and I brung the bottle to him."
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"By my shalvation, boy," he added, fiercely, "if you don't take your hande off my peard, I'll sthrangle you."
Jack Sheppard A Romance William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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A capricious jet of flame from a coal in the fire at this moment lighted up the face of the stranger for a moment, and enabled Maria to "spy a creat peard under the muffler."
Deerbrook Harriet Martineau 1839
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