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  • I thot I loved en well till Mister Jan comed, an 'opened my blind eyes, an' shawed me what love was.

    Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • Then, sure enough, the ghost of Tregagle 'peared in the court-house an' shawed the man was a liar.

    Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • He's shawed me what you be, an 'the likes o' you, wi 'your hell-fire an' prayin 'an' sour looks.

    Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • I ban't no faither o 'yourn, thank God, as shawed me I weern't -- never, never.

    Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • "Was theer anything else as shawed anything 'bout en?"

    Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • We shawed a light an 'tumbled 'bout for quarter o' an hour wi 'the weather gettin' wicked.

    Lying Prophets Eden Phillpotts 1911

  • He zed ef 'ee shawed et to anybody they'd kill un.

    The Birthright Joseph Hocking 1898

  • Syne she turned round, an 'shawed her face: Mr. Soulis had the same cauld grue as twice that day afore, an' it was borne in upon him what folk said, that Janet was deid lang syne, an 'this was

    Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

  • Syne she turned round, an 'shawed her face; Mr. Soulis had the same cauld grue as twice that day afore, an' it was borne in upon him what folk said, that Janet was deid lang syne, an 'this was

    Stories by English Authors: Scotland (Selected by Scribners) Various 1878

  • Syne she turned round, an 'shawed her face; Mr. Soulis had the same cauld grue as twice that day afore, an' it was borne in upon him what folk said, that Janet was deid lang syne, an 'this was a bogle in her clay-cauld flesh.

    Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

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