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  • Fitzwarren, my man, brought them forrards on a satting cushing.

    The diary of C. Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., with his letters 2006

  • Fitzwarren, my man, brought them forrards on a satting cushing.

    Burlesques 2006

  • The only way to avoid such consperracies is to put a pair of stowt shoalders forrards, and bust through the crowd of raggymuffins.

    The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

  • 'But your father war Yorkshire, which maks ye a bit Yorkshire too; and onybody may see ye're akin to us, ye're so keen o' making brass, and getting forrards. '

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • There was a dead pause, before he added: ‘— Eh, I don’t wear me breeches arse-forrards.

    Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

  • "He hain't a wishful feller nohow," the stranger was always told, "despite thet he knows hist'ry an 'sich like lore in an' out an 'back'ards an' forrards."

    A Pagan of the Hills Charles Neville Buck 1904

  • "Here de dustibute," shouted Tinker, in reply; "make way, you whitey-brown Turkies, an 'let de rale colour come forrards."

    Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series Bracebridge Hemyng 1871

  • "Then unhitch that animal of yours, and we'll put our best foot forrards, and maybe we'll get a hot supper and a Christian bed to sleep in."

    The Young Explorer Horatio Alger 1865

  • Fitzwarren, my man, brought them forrards on a satting cushing.

    Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • PASHSN OF MY ART have been brot forrards in a ridicklus way for the public emusemint.

    Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

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