bean't

"I bean't to be galloping up and down them rides, I suppose," said Bat, almost contemptuously.

Can You Forgive Her? 1993

"What! bean't 'ee on ma head, mother?" replied Job, slowly extricating one hand from a pocket, and feeling for the article in question; which he found on his head sure enough, and left there, to his mother's horror and Tom's great delight.

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

"Ah, I see as you bean't quite so lissom as you was," replied the farmer, with a grim smile, as he lifted the latch of his door; "we bean't so young as we was, nother on us, wuss luck."

Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

"Say, you bean't goin 'ter fight, be yer?" gasped Jim, hardly able to believe his senses, the shock was so great.

Darry the Life Saver The Heroes of the Coast Frank V. Webster

"Smite me if it bean't Doggy Trang!" said the mate when the squat towsy-headed seaman who had conducted us below had left us.

Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang

Accordin 'to she, there bean't enough for the hoosts o' people there be.

Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden Charles Garvice

"D'ye reckon he can tie it safe and proper, seeing he bean't no more a parson?" asked Jack.

Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang

'Tis all very well for them as begin as officers, but for the men the life bean't fit for a dog.

Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Herbert Strang

"It bean't no ghost - ship this time, though _she_ ain't far off, I knows, to my thinkin '!"

The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea Henry [Illustrator] Austin

"I bean't drunk, mister," protested Williams sleepily.

Mud and Khaki Sketches from Flanders and France Vernon Bartlett 1938