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_ Why now it is as't shou'd be: Such a brisk Wench as this is, makes young Blood boyl within your Veins again.

The London-Bawd: With Her Character and Life Discovering the Various and Subtle Intrigues of Lewd Women Anonymous

Well, he couldn't raise the hull on 'em, -- 't a'n't good to raise more 'n nine, -- an' so he said, ef I'd 'a' had a place o 'my own, I could' a 'had one on 'em, but, as't was, he guessed he'd hev to send one to market for a roaster.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

I as't 'im once why' e took up with a woman like me, instead of with a reel young lady.

Living Alone Stella Benson 1912

Germans now -- so they do tell me, however; an 'if we be no better nor furriners here in Darset, why I doan't know as't matters gertly wha' cwomes to us at all.

The Message 1912

Almost fiercely Freeman notes the effect he produces, and how "Women do catch an Admiration for him as't were a Pox."

A Woman Named Smith Marie Conway Oemler 1905

'Can I see Mr Gallup?' she says, and knowing he was in the parlour I as't her in.

The Ffolliots of Redmarley 1898

'I couldn 'make nobody hear at all by knocking,' apologized Jonathan Kail, for it was he at last; 'and as't was raining out I opened the door.

Tess of the d'Urbervilles 1891

And that chimbly-piece with that plaster of Paris Samuel prayin 'in it; well, if Sally's as't me for a

The Leatherwood God William Dean Howells 1878

He's always correctin 'the guls; I see him take up a book one day, that one of 'em was readin', and when she as't him about it, he said it was rubbage.

Ragged Lady — Volume 1 William Dean Howells 1878

I see him take up a book one day, that one of 'em was readin ', and when she as't him about it, he said it was rubbage.

Ragged Lady — Complete William Dean Howells 1878