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  • I vas run aftaire hims, as he vas run avays, and den he vas go out of zight in one big hole at ze top of ze hill.

    The Island Treasure 1887

  • Whenever he wanted to seem very brave, and rather a big boy, he used to say "all zight," and just now he was trying very hard to be like a big boy.

    "Carrots": Just a Little Boy 1882

  • 'Tis quite lately, since his illness, that he came to that little place, in zight of the stone walls that were the pride of his forefathers. '

    A Laodicean : a Story of To-day Thomas Hardy 1884

  • 'Tis that makes him able to live there; before he was so ill he couldn't bear a zight of the place, but since then he is happy nowhere else, and never leaves the parish further than to drive once a week to Markton.

    A Laodicean : a Story of To-day Thomas Hardy 1884

  • He hoped no harm hadn't come to the gentleman in the parlour; he had a powerful zight

    What's Bred in the Bone Grant Allen 1873

  • I believe we was the only other planters up the river, and that there'll be no boat till we come to the places where we stayed of a night, and it's a zight nearer the zea.

    Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land George Manville Fenn 1870

  • You haven't got your strength up yet, though you are a zight better.

    Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land George Manville Fenn 1870

  • Oh, deery me! and I never cot zight on un -- and noo I be most spent,

    Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847

  • a zight o 'people, since I zeed' im that day, but I do mind his voice, and I do mind his 'ands, and I do mind his ve-ace the zame as if it wur yesterday.

    What's Bred in the Bone Grant Allen 1873

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