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  • So look'ee here - I'm an easy chap, as anyone'll tell you, but I'll stand no shines, d'ye see?

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • ` ` And look'ee, Hiram, '' the old man resumed, suddenly, ` ` I do hear that you be courtin 'the girl, too; is that so?' '

    Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates : fiction, fact & fancy concerning the buccaneers & marooners of the Spanish Main 1921

  • "Why look'ee, if he ain't dead -- leastways --" But here I seized him by the throat and, twisting him round, shook him to and fro till he choked:

    Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • But look'ee, there never was pirate the like o 'me for holiness --' specially o '

    Martin Conisby's Vengeance Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • "Why, look'ee now, master," says he, scratching his shaven chin, "since you've got your breakfus 'surely, if you're minded t' step along t 'my cottage down t' lane, I can give ye a jug of good ale to wash it down."

    Black Bartlemy's Treasure Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • "Now look'ee, Pen," says Jack, trying to bluster, "I say I'm not to be badgered and brow-beaten by a slip of a girl -- I say I'm not, by heaven!"

    The Honourable Mr. Tawnish Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • "Nay, look'ee," says Mings, wiping sweat from him, "nay, but I heard somewhat -- aye, I did, an unchancy sound --"

    Martin Conisby's Vengeance Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • For look'ee, 'tis slip our floating anchor, up wi 'our helm and down on 'em' thwart-hawse and let fly our larboard broadside, veer and pound 'em wi 'our starboard guns, keeping the weather gauge, d'ye see, pal, till their fire slackens and them blind wi' our smoke and theirs.

    Martin Conisby's Vengeance Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • And I killed him because he would ha 'murdered our Joanna, our luck -- and because he was for yielding us up, you and me, to yon ship that is death for us -- for look'ee, there is never a ship on the Main will grant quarter or show mercy for we;

    Martin Conisby's Vengeance Jeffery Farnol 1915

  • But he hath a cloak, look'ee -- a cloak forsooth and poor

    The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Jeffery Farnol 1915

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