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  • As I telled you wot you wa -- No, the's no sorter use your making fyces at me.

    The Divine Fire May Sinclair 1904

  • "But I shouldn't be surprised but wot they'd stand an 'look in one another's fyces wivout s'yin' a word, for a week or so by the Time Above, an 'the tears a-runnin' down an 'never stoppin'!"

    The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897

  • 'Ere in New York a poor boy or a poor girl can't go out into the street without seein' the things they're cryvin 'for in their insides flaunted at 'em like -- shook in their fyces -- while the law and the police and the church and everythink what mykes our life says to

    The Dust Flower Basil King 1893

  • You'll 'ave noticed, miss, that' e 'ad one o' them fyces what don't look well in nothink rakish -- a real gentleman's fyce 'e' ad -- and them cowboy 'ats ---- "

    The Dust Flower Basil King 1893

  • I'd marry agyne, and me a widda, as you might sye, from my crydle -- and if I did, it wouldn't 'a been a wicked old varlet what I always suspected 'e was leadin' a double life -- and now to see them two fyces together -- why, I says, 'ere's the explanytion as plyne as plyne can make it .... "

    The Dust Flower Basil King 1893

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