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  • An 'all t' time shoo called hersen an idle dollops 'cause shoo weren't workin 'hard enough.

    Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895

  • History, t. 5, p. 273, &c. N.B. The titles of earls and hersen were first given by Ifwar Widfame, king of Sweden, to two ministers of state in 824; on which see many remarks of Olof Delin, in his excellent new history of Sweden, c. 5, t. {}, p. {} 34.

    The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

  • "Happen a look at a lass's grandmother -- when tha conna get at th 'lass hersen -- is a bit o' comfort," she added.

    T. Tembarom 1913

  • She sung like a throstle hersen, and we had practisin's night after night for a matter of three months. '

    Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • 'Our Polly come in this morning and sat hersen down on a chair and told us as your dog had brukken his leg.

    Leonora Arnold Bennett 1899

  • Throp's wife! 'says Satan;' an 'who's Throp's wife to set hersen agean me?'

    Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895

  • It were Setterday, an 'shoo looked at t' bag o 'wool and said to hersen that shoo'd have it all carded an' spun an 'sided away afore shoo went to bed that neet.

    Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895

  • Shoo'd get t 'house sided up by ten o'clock, an' then shoo'd set hersen down to t 'wheel.

    Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895

  • Goin 'agin a chap -- workin' agin him, an 'settin' hersen i 'his road.

    That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

  • An 'hoo tells Jud as he's a good lad to tak' care o 'his dog, an' hoo does na know but what hoo'd fowt hersen i 'his place, an' hoo ca's Jack

    That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

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