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Examples
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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
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Fitzwarren, my man, brought them forrards on a satting cushing.
Burlesques 2006
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The only way to avoid such consperracies is to put a pair of stowt shoalders forrards, and bust through the crowd of raggymuffins.
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'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. '
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There was a dead pause, before he added: ‘— Eh, I don’t wear me breeches arse-forrards.
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"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
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"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
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"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
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Fitzwarren, my man, brought them forrards on a satting cushing.
Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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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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