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  • Connaught Rooms, Kingsway, on this their Yearly Veäst Day, be mindvul o 'yer Grashus Majesty, an' wi 'vull hearts do zend ee the dootivul an' loyal affecshuns o 'th' Society o 'Darset Men in Lon'on.

    Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

  • Mas'r Davy, I unnerstan 'very well, though my aunt will come to Lon'on afore they sail, and they'll unite once more, that I am not like to see him agen.

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • "Ah, it's you, sir, -- the young gemman as bore away for Lon'on alongside Master Horatio, his Lordship!"

    The Amateur Gentleman Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • Did Reynard go up to Lon'on with 'em, d'ye know? '

    A Group of Noble Dames Thomas Hardy 1884

  • "I do hope the poor soul will not be deserted and undone -- she's so easy to serve -- and all Bath, and, for that matter, Lon'on too, as I believe, at her feet!" says Mrs. Price, emphatically, to young

    Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870

  • I won'er gien at this moment there be anither man in a 'Lon'on sittin' readin 'that epistle o' yours but Blue Peter here?

    The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864

  • Dosto yer, aw've seen so mich wickedness sin 'aw coom to Lon'on. that aw dunnot knaw whether to breighk thi yed, or to goo wi' tho?

    Stephen Archer and Other Tales George MacDonald 1864

  • There's ane or twa -- great men, I daursay -- whiles comes doon frea Lon'on, to smell hoo he's gettin 'on wi' 's stinks, but deil a neebor comes nigh the hoose.

    Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

  • "This'll be ane o 'the Lon'on kirks, I'm thinkin'?" he said.

    The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864

  • Weel, I ha'e aye h'ard 'at Lon'on was an awfu' place, but I little thoucht the verra air o ''t wad sae sune turn an honest laad like

    The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864

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