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'Them's just my sentiment,' sed one o'th 'singers,' an 'aw dooant care who hears me say it, for aw dooant care whether a chap's coit is aght o'th' elbows or his britches knees brussen, noa matter if he's ---- '
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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'Are yo laffin becoss mi britches knees is brussen or becose th' drum end's brussen, aw'd like to know? '
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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'What's th' matter wi 'thi? tha'rt as mad as if tha'd swoller'd th' drum asteead o'th 'drum swollerin thee; tha mud ha getten thi bally brussen,' sed Dick.
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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Then Minnie stared at him an laft, an he tried to laff to, an one oth 'shop lads gave a guffaw an this soa nettled Chairley' at he samd th 'bag wi th' eggs in an sent it flyin at his heead, an gave it sich a crack at th 'bag wor brussen, an th' eggs all smashed wor sylin daan throo his heead to his feet, an just then th 'maister walked in.
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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Not a word was tittered during the first half-hour, till a queer-looking mortal, who had spent several years of his prime of birdhood at old Calgarth, and picked up a tolerable command of the Westmoreland dialect by means of the Hamiltonian system, exclaimed, "I'se weel nee brussen -- there be's Mister Wudsworth -- Ho, ho, ho!"
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819
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Well I'd awant Ross Raisin's a gradely chap and I'd awant he was capt and could have looked a claht'ead or a gauvie if he'd been mithered and wished he was a mowdiwarps agait aht and then he'd have got all blathered up and been a bit too brussen in fact a bonney ... oh alright I got it all from here.
Brit Lit Blogs 2008
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"If its onnybody its thisen! gurt brussen thing 'at tha art!
Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877
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Has th 'boiler brussen, or are we going on strike? "
Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877
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