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  • Now I do call that noos worse a Jews high Mr. Pindargrasp and I opes youll see me honestly delt with sein as how I coms forward and tels it hall without any haskin and cood keep it all to miself and no one coodent be the wiser only I chews to do the thing as is rite.

    Castle Richmond 2004

  • You'll excuse me a-haskin 'you not to lean ag'in that post, won't you, sir?

    Fifty-Two Stories For Girls 1888

  • It were Chris'mas Eve, and ole Sir Markham he were keepin 'on a-haskin' for Miss Dora, and I couldn't stand it no longer, so I come over 'ere to smoke my pipe and be to myself, yer see, and bide my feelin's like.

    Fifty-Two Stories For Girls 1888

  • Well, sir, to make a long story short, it were just this: Sir Markham had told 'er as she mustn't think nothink of young Markham's college friend,' cos 'e were poor and' adn't nothink but 'is wits and' is learnin 'to live on, and that the tall soldier' ad been a-haskin 'for

    Fifty-Two Stories For Girls 1888

  • "'Cause I shan't be able to move, and my boy's been a-haskin 'for something hot 'fore you come."

    Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea George Manville Fenn 1870

  • Mr. Pindargrasp and I opes youll see me honestly delt with sein as how I coms forward and tels it hall without any haskin and cood keep it all to miself and no one coodent be the wiser only I chews to do the thing as is rite.

    Castle Richmond Anthony Trollope 1848

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