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Thot's what I can scarcelins tell yo ', but we melted it -- we melted it.
Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Jesse were strong o 'his side, and all th' women i 'the congregation dinned it to' Liza 'at she were fair fond to take up wi' a wastrel ne'er-do-weel like me, as was scarcelins respectable an 'a fighting dog at his heels.
Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Thot's what I can scarcelins tell yo ', but we melted it -- we melted it.
Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900
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'Yo' mun let the big oaf bide here a bit, Jesse, 'he says, when he hed strapped me up an' given me a dose o 'physic;' an 'you an' 'Liza will tend him, though he's scarcelins worth the trouble.
Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Jesse were strong o 'his side, and all th' women i 'the congregation dinned it to' Liza 'at she were fair fond to take up wi' a wastrel ne'er-do-weel like me, as was scarcelins respectable an 'a fighting dog at his heels.
Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900
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He scarcelins wad addle (4) his saut wiv a ploo, or a shovel, or fork.
Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems Frederic William Moorman 1895
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"Yo 'mun let the big oaf bide here a bit, Jesse," he says, when he hed strapped me up an 'given me a dose o' physic; "an 'you an' Liza will tend him, though he's scarcelins worth the trouble.
Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900
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