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Examples
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I can't understand you calling President Carter our worset.
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Also in this Moscow on the Hudson I have a small legion of elected officials of all sorts making my life worset in countless ways.
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At last she broke her 'worset,' drew the end of it through the final loop, and, drawing it, rose and scanned the side of the hill.
Heather and Snow George MacDonald 1864
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And wait thers more, the same town that had the worset race riots ever known.
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Madge to be brought up the street wi 'a grand man, wi' a coat a 'passemented wi' worset-lace, to speak wi 'provosts, and bailies, and town-clerks, and prokitors, at this time o' day --- and the haill town looking at me too --- This is honour on earth for ance! ''
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"I'm hoping this is the worset they to do to our story," adds Jill.
From Inside the Box 2010
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As I have yet to see it I can't say whether it beats out 'Blood and Chocolate' for the worset movie based off a book; that would have been easy if they had paid attention to the details or had read the book themselves.
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Great preferment for poor Madge to be brought up the street wi’ a grand man, wi’ a coat a’ passemented wi’ worset-lace, to speak wi’ provosts, and bailies, and town-clerks, and prokitors, at this time o’ day — and the haill town looking at me too — This is honour on earth for ance!”
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"Noa he isn't, but they worn't content wi 'that but Musty went an' gate some sooart o 'paader' at they use to dye red worset an 'sich like stuff wi', an he tuk off his cap an 'sprinkled it all amang his toppin, an then they left him, an' in a bit he wakken'd up, for all th 'childer ith district wor gethered raand him, starin at him.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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"I'm gauin 'ower to the toon to buy a feow hanks o' worset to weyve a pair o 'stockins to my man.
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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