hear'd

The Cocks will be afraid to crow should we stay there untill daylight, and Old Thames will come mouthing down to London Bridge and declaring that he never hear'd such a noise in all his life.!!!

Letter 250 2009

I wuz in de field workin 'same as I allus done, and I hear'd ole Joe horse a snortin'.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

"They ain't common, but I've hear'd of such cases before."

Over the Sliprails Henry Lawson 1894

"What's the raison you're runnin 'a nor-aist coorse now, an' we never hear'd iv it afore at all, till afther you quitted the big ship?"

Stories of Comedy Rossiter Johnson 1885

But mind, I hear'd no talking when I passed 'n. An'

A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs 1881

O lawk, a lawk! how the Owd Master did break out when he hear'd of it!

Two Suffolk Friends Francis Hindes Groome 1876

Then he hear'd suffen about her, which warn't a bit true, and he went awaa, and was persuaded to marry somebody else.

Two Suffolk Friends Francis Hindes Groome 1876

They are always going to that place, and there's no knowing, so I've hear'd, what them priests can do.

Clara Hopgood Mark Rutherford 1872

"I've hear'd that there are jaguars an 'critters o' that sort, which is as big and as bad as tigers, an 'goes by the name, but p'raps --"

Lost in the Forest Wandering Will's Adventures in South America 1859

"Then it's all up with him!" said Bumpus; "and the pirate will meet his doom, as I once hear'd a feller say in a play -- though I little thought to see it acted in reality."

Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader 1859