loikes

A perplexed Dublin woman, on hearing an Anglican priest referred to as "father," exclaimed in non-protestant protest, "Imagine calling the loikes of him father -- a married man with foive children!"

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 2 No 1 1975

All are wonderful pieces, so, for the sake of blessed sympathy and to avoid 10 repetitions of me writing, This 'un are a bit good, I loikes it!

Readers recommend: songs about arguments Rob Fitzpatrick 2010

The loikes of us is always wat — that is barring the insides of us.

The Last Chronicle of Barset 2004

He stuck his pipe in his mouth, his hat on his head, and his feet on the footboard of his bed, and said emphatically that he be domned if he'd shtand the loikes av this gran'mother business any more at all.

Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life Lemuel Ely Quigg

"Is he a bye that could crack a plant with the loikes o 'me?"

Jim Cummings Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton

"S'welp me," he said, as he touched a satin cushion with his coarse, broken-nailed finger-tips, "h'if oi h'understand wye a woman the loikes uv _you_, wiv h'everyfink she wants, cawn't run _strite_!"

Leonie of the Jungle Joan Conquest

For folks mostly loikes them that will take pains for 'em; and your father was always obligin '.

The Widow O'Callaghan's Boys Gulielma Zollinger

'I know how far away yez are from the loikes of me and will forgit me to-morry, but I'm glad yez come, for it gave me a breath of the joy of the great world outside.

The Wedge of Gold C. C. Goodwin

I wouldn't demane mesilf by spakin 'to the loikes ov

Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene

She escorted him to the door after the rent had been paid over, patting him on the head, calling him a hero, and telling him that "the rint wud always be rady for the loikes ov him."

William Adolphus Turnpike William Banks