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Examples

  • I shall desert; that's what I shall do -- cut right away and jyne the rebels if they'll have me.

    Fix Bay'nets The Regiment in the Hills George Manville Fenn 1870

  • They're good mates and true, and 'll jyne me as they allus have.

    Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea George Manville Fenn 1870

  • But anyhow I've found you -- leastwise, a'most; and I'm coming to jyne yer.

    Hunting the Skipper The Cruise of the "Seafowl" Sloop George Manville Fenn 1870

  • "Why, you said you wanted to jyne the Ryle Artilleree."

    To The West George Manville Fenn 1870

  • "Air we to let 'em pitch us overboard, or air we to jyne?"

    Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea George Manville Fenn 1870

  • "Right you are," cried the man again; and Bob felt as if he should like to tell the man he ought to say, "You are right;" but the man went on, still looking him over from head to foot: "Then you aren't going to jyne the 'Flash'? she's a-lying out yonder."

    The Little Skipper A Son of a Sailor George Manville Fenn 1870

  • I hear say as there was a fight, and then Pete kep 'on saying he would jyne 'em; and then there was another fight, and Pete Burge licked the second man, and then he says he wouldn't go.

    Nic Revel A White Slave's Adventures in Alligator Land George Manville Fenn 1870

  • "Eh? Master Vane Lee lost?" said one of the figures, the lights proclaiming them to be the policemen, who had just met at one of their appointed stations; "then we'd better jyne you."

    The Weathercock Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias George Manville Fenn 1870

  • Is he going to ask us to dinner, Ram, lad, and send for his skipper to jyne us? "

    Cutlass and Cudgel George Manville Fenn 1870

  • We don't mean them no harm: all they've got to do is to jyne in and share, for not a yard further do we go, messmates, till we've got to the bottom of that gold. "

    Old Gold The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig George Manville Fenn 1870

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