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Aw see it as plain as aw see yon moors through th 'window, only it's noan green and breet wi' sunshine -- it's dark. '
Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather
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We plugged along up a low rocky hill that bounded it, and as we neared the top, Tweel said, 'No breet', Tick!
Valley of Dreams Stanley Grauman Weinbaum 1918
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No breet! 'and I understood that he meant that the Fancy Long thing wasn't alive.
A Martian Odyssey Stanley Grauman Weinbaum 1918
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I knew it was the dream-beasts; I didn't need Tweel's wail of 'No breet'!
Valley of Dreams Stanley Grauman Weinbaum 1918
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He glowered at 'em, an 'they glowered back at him, an' their een were as breet as glow-worms.
More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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They were birk-trees, an 'their boles were that breet they fair glistened i'
Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895
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"Aw may weel be fond o 'lukkin at it, for awve seen varry little o'th' breet en."
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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Her een strangely breet, -- her face like a sheet,
Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect John Hartley 1877
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An shoo's still breet an bonny an a gooid wife to me.
Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect John Hartley 1877
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It wor a grand neet, an 'th' mooin wor shinin ommost as breet as if it wor harvest time; an 'as ther purses wor empty an' ther pipes full, they argyfied it wor a deeal moor sensible to caar thear an 'have a quiet smook nor to waste ther time in a public haase.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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