daycent

Aw do believe if tha could nobbut live long enuff aw should be able to mak a daycent chap on thi at th 'finish. "

Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877

An 'a married woman an' o '-- aw think hoo might be daycent.'

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

"Sure an 'I saw your advertisement," she began, humbly, "an 'I thought two such gintlemen as yerselves moight not be too hard on a daycent woman who only takes a drop or two now an' then ----"

The Van Dwellers A Strenuous Quest for a Home Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

He's a daycent sooart ov a chap, an 'we thowt he owt to have a statty.

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

An aw hardly thowt it wor, for he's abaat as quiet a lad an 'as daycent a one as ther is abaat here.

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

'Why, that's nooan a bad thing if they give 'em owt daycent to ait.'

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

_ -- 'It's my weshin day to morn, soa aw want to get to bed i' daycent time. '

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

Bith heart! tha'd ma 'a daycent looad for a barrow thisen!

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

"Well, aw dooant want to be hard o 'ony body, but tha knows it's net to be expected aw shall taich thee a song like that for nowt, but as tha seems to be a daycent sooart ov a chap, if tha'll gie me th' donkey an 'th' puttates aw'l mak thee a present o'th 'panniers."

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

Let's get hooam, they're nooan fit spots for daycent fowk, an 'aw hooap awst niver catch thi i' one agean!

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877