West-country

When you meet yet another superstitious villager with a West-country accent, you have to ask yourself, "Will disembowling this guy break a quest line?"

Fable 2 Greg Tannahill 2008

When you meet yet another superstitious villager with a West-country accent, you have to ask yourself, "Will disembowling this guy break a quest line?"

Archive 2008-12-01 Greg Tannahill 2008

West-country lass; and as she passed them with a pretty blush and courtesy, even Campian looked back at the fair innocent creature, whose long dark curls, after the then country fashion, rolled down from beneath the hood below her waist, entangling the soul of

Westward Ho! 2007

West-country woman, did not understand his English or his Gascon

The History of Pendennis 2006

To those musing weather-beaten West-country folk who pass the greater part of their days and nights out of doors, Nature seems to have moods in other than a poetical sense: predilections for certain deeds at certain times, without any apparent law to govern or season to account for them.

A Pair of Blue Eyes 2006

Haddington, beheld four men, clad like West-country Whigamores, standing round some object on the ground.

Lay Morals 2005

Lovers of that charming little West-country village in which the author sets her scene will not easily forgive her for naming it and baldly cataloguing its houses and sundry points of its environment, leaving out most that is the essential of its charm.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-04 Various

England consisteth only of timber, for as yet few of the houses of the communalty (except here and there in the West-country towns) are made of stone, although they may (in my opinion) in divers other places be builded so good cheap of the one as of the other.

Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series) Thomas Malory Jean Froissart

West-country English, it not only contains a strong infusion of French, but distinctly states the prevailing influence of that language in his own day:

English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee

The Author, therefore, trusts, that by a careful attention to these, the reader will soon become_ au fait _at the interpretation of these West-country_ LIDDENS.

The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings