swate

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Aw swate, swate, she was, wid a heart--a heart, Hilton's wife, aw yis Pierre waved Macavoy into silence.

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  • We might be upset, or thrown on the rocks, and get smashed Thin it's us till a nate little cove, or a swate creek!" —  Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise or, The Dash for Dixie
  • When Mr. Terry was told, he begged for his son in law's "swate-lukin' roifle," and was as cheerful as if a wedding was in progress. —  Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life
  • Indade he's the girl to my taste The form is so nate The lip is so swate, That I kape her quite close to my waist But no cannibal I When I look in her eye, The loikes to my sister is seen So I piously pause In the work of my jaws, Till I take a wee drop of Poteen So I piously pause In the work of my jaws, Till I take a wee drop of Poteen Lave the Pratie to cool On the top of the shtool, While we master this question of shtate Shall I ate? —  Soldier Songs and Love Songs
  • When Mr. Shaw came to put away the horse, she struck him over the head with her handbag, playfully blackening one of his eyes, and then begged him to come and make up--"kiss and forgit, like the swate pet that he was Exit Mrs. Murphy George Shaw decided to do his own cooking, but in three days every dish in the house was dirty; the teapot was full of leaves, the stove full of ashes, and the floor was slippery George Shaw's farm lay parallel with the Souris River in that fertile region which lies between the Brandon and the Tiger Hills. —  The Black Creek Stopping-House
  • Aw swate, swate, she was, wid a heart--a heart, Hilton's wife, aw yis Pierre waved Macavoy into silence. —  The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
 

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